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INDO-EUROPEAN VOWEL SYNTHESIS
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ă, d, ) is also attested in initial syllables of several IE forms. It is quite likely that such treatments were also effected by preceding forms. A short vowel also followed by two consonants forms a heavy syllable. Several IE forms ended in consonants. They were also treated as heavy syllables when the following form had an initial: consonant in the same sentence, Subsequently of course generalizations must have taken place and particular forms were fixed as a result of which initially sometimes y etc. and sometimes iy etc, are attested.
Examples are cited below, with reconstructions on the basis of cognates; the original positional variation is not strictly followed in the reconstructions. Because generalizations must have started in IE proto-stage.
1) 1, ă, , , , +ă, é, o >y, w, r, l, m, n +ă, ě, 8. IE owi-tos (gen sg)>IE owyos, cp Skt (vd) avyah, Gk.
bios (Gk shows i for y, because y would be lost). (E oweites (nom pl) > IE oweyes cp Skt avayah Av
garayő (=Skt girayah), Gk óies (Odyssey IX 425). IE pebu-õm (gen pl)xit pekwồm, cp Skt (vd) paovãm..
Av pasvam, Gk goúnön, gónon < gonwon < IE
ĝonwöm. IE mātr +so (gen sg) > IE matros, cp Av māoro, Gk
mētrós. IE regn +so > IE rēĝnos cp Skt rājñaḥ. 2) ř, , , , , +ă, ?, >iy, uw, rr, ļl, mm, în +
ă, ě, . IE dhitos (gen sg)>IE dhiyos cp Skt dhiyaḥ Gk kiós. IB bhrū+08>IE bhruwos, cp Skt bhruvaḥ Gk ophrúos,
Lat suis.
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