From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 54670
Date: 2008-03-04
> If I understand Sergejaus account correctly (some crucialKortlandt's paper is available at:
> pages are missing from the online version of Baltic
> Maetatoiny, and I don't have the book at hand), Kortlandt
> thinks that the laryngeal became syllable-initial (and thus
> irrelevant for tonal purposes) regularly before the vocalic
> suffix *-eye- (*bhoih2-eye- > bai.?e.je., cf. Slavic boja- <
> boi.?a?. < bhoih2-ah2-). Only _afterwards_ was /d/ inserted
> (as a hiatus-filler for Kortlandt, as a suffix *dh(h1)- for
> Derksen).