From: dgkilday57
Message: 68525
Date: 2012-02-09
>What are the parade-examples for Olsen's dissimilatory aspiration? If it explains the short vowel of InIr for 'hoof', it would seem that the *h2 was absorbed going into PInIr.
> W dniu 2012-02-09 21:13, dgkilday57 pisze:
>
> > The old suggestion that this word comes from *telh2-
> > 'lift, raise' by dissimilation of *tl@-dHla: (ib. 91, questionably) can
> > be discarded, since zero-grade would have given Italic *tla:- as in Lat.
> > <la:tus> 'carried'.
>
> Not as per Olsen, who claims that the laryngeal "preaspiration" was a
> PIE phenomenon. The development of *l.h2 > *la: is of course dialectal.
> One can therefore imagine something like *tl.h2-tlah2 > *tl.h2tHlah2 >
> *t&tHlah2 (dissimilatory loss) > ... > tabula.