Pinault's law

Pinault's law is a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) phonological rule named after the French Indo-Europeanist Georges-Jean Pinault who discovered it.

According to this rule, PIE laryngeals disappear before *y. Compare:

References

  • Pinault, G-J. (1982). A neglected phonetic law: The reduction of the Indo-European laryngeals in internal syllables before yod (Papers from the 5th International Conference on Historical Linguistics ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Ahlqvist A. pp. 265–272.
  • Kapović, Mate (2008). Uvod u indoeuropsku lingvistiku (in Croatian). Zagreb: Matica hrvatska. ISBN 978-953-150-847-6.


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