This analysis explores alternating forms in IE roots, highlighting significance in language evolution.
A number of IE roots beginning with stops or sonants show alternating forms with an added initial s -. Occasionally doublets survive in the same daughter language, with or without differentiation of meaning; examples are Engl. melt and smelt , and Gk. τέγoς and στέγoς , both meaning ‘roof’.
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Henry Μ. Hoenigswald (1952) studied this question.
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