Re: PIE meaning of the Germanic dental preterit

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> He talked too about the lost of laryngeal in baidyti (see Metatony in
> Baltic)
> What do you think that he assumed when he talked about this?

Could you give me a reference? I've got the book and will check.
Kortlandt speaks of the loss of the final laryngeal, too, but he
assumes (if I read him right) *bai?i? --> *baidi?- (with *? analysed
as a hiatus-filler and replaced with *-d- used as a new hiatus-filler)
in Proto-Baltic.

> Finally I don't care who assumes what:
> -> if can give you OTHER examples that show you that the final
> laryngeal is lost in compounds, this is enough to explain the
> accentual pattern in baidyti.

This is one of the well-known laws of PIE, isn't it?

Sergei