From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 67791
Date: 2011-06-16
> If I knew, I would publish it immediately :). Most authors areI've seen explanations thru a metathesis which took place after Saussure's Law ceased to operate: *H(o)i-nó- > *(o)iH-nó- along the lines of *h2ak-men- > *kah2-men- 'stone'. I'm more concerned about the Baltic full grade vs. zero grade in Slavic.
> blissfully unaware of any problems with '1' and stick to traditional
> *(H)oi-no-/*(H)oi-wo-/*(H)oi-ko-. To be sure, the second and the third
> of these variants may well be correct, but the first just can't be. If
> the first *o is apophonic, Saussure's Law should have removed the medial
> laryngeal (so *(H)oi-no- would be justified for some branches), but
> Slavic and East Baltic still require it to be there. Perhaps the true
> morphological division is *(H)(o)i-Hn-ó-, which would probably allow us
> to get round Saussurean effects.