Re: Laryngeals: arguments from typology?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "G&P" <G.and.P@...> wrote:

>
> >Which hiatus are you referring to?
>
> Both within words and between words. Examples include:
>
> Vedic bhaas for Skt bha:s < *bheHes (noun type as in manas < *menes)
> Vedic panthaam for pantha:m < *ponteH-m. (syllabic -m, hence -am)
> Avestan mazdaam < *mnz-deH-m. (syllabic -m)
> Vedic tanuah (not *tanvah), < *tnuH-os
> and so on
>

Possible alternative theory: when a vowel-initial suffix is added to stems ending in a long vowel (bha:-, da:-, tanu:-), hiatus results and the long vowels are shortened.