“…into the picture, even though it does not satisfy the structural description of his suggested rule. His claim, following Mańczak (1960), that *dedórḱ-is ultimately based on Pre-PIE 1ps *de-dérḱ-h 2 e with *e becoming *o preceding *-h 2 e (the German text of the seventh edition says "vor Hintervokal der Folgesilbe *-h 2 e"), 16 will not convince many, because the phonetic conditions for a change of e to o here are not natural. The laryngeal colored the following vowel only to " -hardly a basis for producing rounding of a preceding e to o.…”