Thread:User talk:CodeCat/h₁reudʰ- or h₁rewdʰ-?/reply (2)

Are you sure? Isn't the one "gliding" and the other not? Or, written in IPA, /w/ and /u/?

I have worked a lot with the PIE root for water, *wed-, and have not seen it written *ued- as a variant ever. I have seen it written as *u̯ed- alternatively however, with the diacritic indicating gliding/semivowel. (The zero-grade form *ud- however really has an u as /u/, because a semivowel in front of d does not make sense, I think.)