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Pinault's law (/pi.ˈnoʊ/ pee-NO) 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 between an underlying non-syllabic consonant (i.e. an obstruent or sonorant) and *y. Examples can be seen in the formation of imperfective verbs by appending ] to the stem. Compare:
- PIE root ] 'to say' → imperfective ] 'to be saying' (cf. Ancient Greek εἴρω, eirō, 'to tell')
- PIE root ] 'to plow' → imperfective ] 'to be plowing' (cf. Old Irish airid 'to be plowing')
- PIE root ] 'to spin' → imperfective ] 'to be spinning' (cf. Old Irish sníid, 'to spin'). Here the laryngeal */h₁/ is not deleted since it is preceded by a vowel.
General 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. pp. 265–272.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|agency=ignored (help) - Kapović, Mate (2008). Uvod u indoeuropsku lingvistiku (in Croatian). Zagreb: Matica hrvatska. ISBN 978-953-150-847-6.
- Ringe, Don (13 July 2017). From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic. A Linguistic History of English (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 16–17. doi:10.1093/OSO/9780198792581.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-879258-1. OCLC 972772031. OL 27415350M. Wikidata Q119269648.
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