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@oysteib
I think *les- and *leǵ- (notice the accent on the g, so palatalised? /gj/?) might be the same root reconstructed in two possible ways. I can imagine a /gj/ - /ʒ/ - /z/ - /s/ all being close enough that different dialects of PIE might have one or the other in the same word.

We might only have both reconstructions *because* each makes more sense when derived from different known languages.

#NotALinguist tho, so it's speculation.

Like 27 July at 15:38 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.scot

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Øystein H. Brekke ᚯᛦᛌᛐᛅᛁᚿ ᚼ ᛒ

@petealexharris Yes, I'm thinking something like that as well.

27 July at 16:51 | Open on masto.ai

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@petealexharris @oysteib
Could be. Another trick you sometimes see in PIE reconstruction is to propose an older form with both consonants, e.g. *leǵs, and then say one branch lost one of them and another branch lost the other.

28 July at 6:04 | Open on mastodonapp.uk