They exhibit perfectly the features of quantitative ablaut, which is the older form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diachrony of PIE] Reference

Or that forms larger units by ablaut of smaller ones?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The hidden binary behind the Japanese numeral system] Reference

Kloekhorst proposes that this root had ablaut though.    From Wordnik.com.  [My sweet honey bee] Reference

Ever since Syncope, full/zero ablaut remained productive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enticed by a drunken thought] Reference

The binary contrasts using ablaut are clearer in Old Japanese.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tower of Babel] Reference

American can get, and I realized it was the ablaut of absolute.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West] Reference

As you can see, the ablaut pairs are also consistent: i/u, ö/a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tower of Babel] Reference

We might even considered this to be an indication of an e/a ablaut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enticed by a drunken thought] Reference

There's no no real reason why you would reconstruct such an ablaut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back to business: emphatic particles and verbal extensions] Reference

Certain ablaut patterns in IE are evidently more recent than others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Pre-IE Centralization] Reference

My reasoning involves the otherwise intractable nature of e/o ablaut.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Pre-IE Centralization] Reference

No ablaut in a Greek noun can not be used as evidence that it isn't Indo-European.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing honey] Reference

I explain e/o ablaut in terms of subjective/objective differences in vowel harmony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Pre-IE Centralization] Reference

"No ablaut in a Greek noun can not be used as evidence that it isn't Indo-European.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing honey] Reference

I doubt ablaut was still a productive system at the time that one could speak of 'Greek'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing honey] Reference

The 'Vowel Harmony' explanation of ablaut is far from ideal, but absolutely has its charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Updating my Pre-IE pdf (already!)] Reference

Hittite and Greek do show words with ablaut. βλιττω is difficult to explain any differently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing honey] Reference

If anything, quantitative ablaut was an artifact of Syncope and thus was only productive during it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enticed by a drunken thought] Reference

"Hittite and Greek do show words with ablaut. βλιττω is difficult to explain any differently.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing honey] Reference

Only by first reinterpreting e/o ablaut as earlier ə/a ablaut do we get closer to its transparency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Pre-IE Centralization] Reference

While the word is still clearly of foreign origin it is no surprised that we have no ablaut in the root.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing honey] Reference

'Some words of this root in some languages have zero grade so it must be from the Genitive with ablaut.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Missing honey] Reference

Also, you claim that full/zero ablaut remained productive after Syncope all the way to the break-up of IE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Enticed by a drunken thought] Reference

I also don't know of any direct descendents of PIE that quickly got rid of their ablaut as Kilday would require.    From Wordnik.com.  [PIE *kap- and *ghabh-] Reference

If it had an ablaut-causing dual or something, that would help - but I don't know of any independent evidence for that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The hidden binary behind the Japanese numeral system] Reference

Then the fact that there is an -én- suffix with accent and ablaut there, seems to point towards a proterodynamic paradigm.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

It's survival in "9" however is natural in such a system where 9 is not divisible by 2, and thus does not have an ablaut pair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tower of Babel] Reference

This is what Allan Bomhard has proposed, although he also believes that Indo-European's ablaut originates at the Nostratic stage preceding PIE by more than 10,000 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [I tripped over Pre-IE the other day] Reference

And do you remember the ablaut of absolute?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West] Reference