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:

PIE *krewh̥₂s 'raw flesh; blood' > Vedic kravís, Ancient Greek κρέας (with the regular reflex of PIE syllabic laryngeal of Vedic -i- and Ancient Greek -α-)
PIE *krewyo- > Vedic kravyás, Lithuanian kraũjas (with no -i- in Vedic, Lithuanian with circumflex accent and not acute which would have been yielded by a laryngeal)

References

Kapović, Mate (2008). Uvod u indoeuropsku lingvistiku (in Croatian). Zagreb: Matica hrvatska. ISBN 978-953-150-847-6.

Proto-Indo-European language

Phonology	Accent Centum and satem Glottalic theory Laryngeal theory s-mobile Sound laws boukólos rule kʷetwóres rule Glossary of sound laws Bartholomae's Grassmann's Osthoff's Pinault's Siebs' Sievers' (Edgerton's converse) Stang's Szemerényi's

Morphology	Ablaut Caland system h₂e-conjugation Narten present Nasal infix Root Thematic vowel Vṛddhi-derivation

Parts of speech	Nominals (nouns and adjectives) Numerals Particles Pronouns Verbs copula Vocabulary

Main sources	Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (IEW) Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben (LIV) Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme (LIPP) Nomina im Indogermanischen Lexikon (NIL) Indo-European Etymological Dictionary (IEED)

Origins	Indo-European migrations & Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses Salmon problem

See also	Proto-Indo-European religion Proto-Indo-European society Indo-European studies Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture (EIE)

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