Re: Horses' Asses and the Indo-European Homeland

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> Sure: PScand *e followed by *a or *u in the next syllable
> became /ja/ and /jo/ (later /jö/) unless preceded by *w, *r,
> *l or immediately followed by *h in the next syllable. Thus
> we have ON <jafn> 'even' from *eBna and <jo,rð> 'earth' from
> *erþu. A non-initial example is <sjo,t> 'abode, home'
> ('seat') from *setu.

Did these resulting /ja/ and /jo/ begin their existence
as diphthongs, or were they from their start a sequence
of phonemes two?

Are there examples of a phoneme split closer to the one
of our original question, in which something like /etHo/,
phonetically [e.tHo], would become /etho/, phonetically
[et.ho]?

David