*yek-, *legh-

From: tgpedersen
Message: 59501
Date: 2008-07-08

I was wondering whether PIE /l/ might have become palatalized before
e-grade.

Eg.
*l'ékWr, *lkWnós > *yékWr, *l.kWnós "liver"
*l'éghoN, *lghtó- > *yéghoN, *l.któ- "lie"

From that could be obtained by regularization paradigms with either
*y- (Latin iecur, iacet) or *l- (English liver, lie).


Torsten