Re: Lithuanian and Latvian words for water deriving from different g

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

> The Latvian word has a circumflex over the first vowel, which is therefore long and cannot represent zero-grade PIE *ud-.

Well, formally, it can - the broken tone (ûdèns) is exactly what one would expect to develop before an Indo-European media (*d) by Winter's Law in a word of a mobile accentual paradigm. (Had it belonged to an immobile one, one would expect the sustained tone thus still a long vowel).

Sergei