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**ax, ex, ix, ux > ē, ē, ī, ū

**ax̌, ex̌, ix̌, ux̌ > ā, ā, ē, ō

**axʷ, exʷ, ixʷ, uxʷ > ō, ō, iw, ū

**ax̌ʷ, ex̌ʷ, ix̌ʷ, ux̌ʷ > ā, ō, ew, ō

*root voice assimilation: a plain stop (unless following ''s'') is assimilated to a voiced stop within a root

**"An additional constraint prohibited roots containing both a voiced aspirated and a voiceless plosive (**tebʰ-), unless the latter occurs in a word-initial cluster after an *s (e.g. *stebʰ- 'to stiffen'). Taken together with the abundance of *DʰeDʰ-type roots, it has been proposed that this distribution results from a limited process of voice assimilation in pre-PIE, where a voiceless stop was assimilated to a voiced aspirate, if another one followed or preceded within a root."