On 2008-11-02 14:52, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
> Apart from *bhuH-o
> Do you have another example of sequence uH2o ?
> or even -uHx-o
If you had read my responses with some care, you would have noticed one
particularly relevant example (among those I have already given): PIE
*h2juh3o:(n). It gives Skt. yúva: 'young (man)'. In the weak stem before
inflectional and derivative suffixes beginning with a vowel (like
gen.sg. *h2juh3n-os > yu:nas and feminine *h2juh3n-ih2 > yu:ni:) you can
see laryngeal lengthening, but if a consonant follows and the stem-final
*n becomes syllabic, the laryngeal begins the second syllable, there is
no lengthening and a hiatus-filling -v- is inserted: loc.pl.
*h2juh3n.-su > yuvasu, derived adj. *h2juh3n.-k^o- > yuvas'a-. All that
is _very_ different from the behavious of *k^won-.
Piotr