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118 Prot-lnd-European Phonology2) The present tense of the PIE root *pehr (with change > *pohr) 'todrink' (cf. L 323 § 3) should be postulated as *pi-phre-ti. Ved. pibati, OldIranian ibid < 'pibeti 'drink!' (imperative, pI.) and Lat. bibil may be traced, ina first step, to 'pibeti. Both fonns, 'pibeti and 'piph,eti are accounted forwhen we asswne that PIE *h, (in this case prevocalic) lent the characteristic[+voiced] to the preceding unvoiced plosive and thus, that already in the PIEperiod, 'ph, became 'b. - In the case of PIE 'h]€p- 'water' (= Ved. cip­RV+ 'water' with apas apa cidbhis and others, cp. Gr. eUpt71O