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Pinault's law (/piˈnoʊ/pee-NOH) is aProto-Indo-European (PIE)phonological rule named after the French Indo-EuropeanistGeorges-Jean Pinault who discovered it.
According to this rule,PIElaryngeals disappear between an underlying non-syllabic consonant (i.e. anobstruent orsonorant) and*y. Examples can be seen in the formation of imperfective verbs by appending*-yeti to the stem.Compare:
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