From: etherman23
Message: 61460
Date: 2008-11-08
>Could this be analogical restoration of the labial element?
> I was only looking at verb roots. Of course in derivatives, compounds
> and inflected words all sorts of clusters may arise at morpheme
> junctures. *-h2t- may be rare or nonexistent morpheme-finally, but of
> course we have 3 sg. aor. *stáh2-t, 2sg. perf. *ste-stóh2-th2a, 3sg.
> pres. *páh2-ti 'guards', *bHráh2-t(e)r- 'brother', etc. Likewise,
> *-h3kW- (the zero grade of *h3okW-) is frequent in compounds like
> *proti-h3kW-o- or *h2anti-h3kW-o-, though at the end of a morpheme it
> would violate both constraints I have proposed (no *h3 before stops, no
> labiovelars after laryngeals).