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The sound change, called Hoffman's law (sometimes Hoffman-Cowgill) after Maribel Hoffman's discovery (Hoffman 1988: 201 n. 2) that either Cowgill's law or something very similar to it operates to a certain extent in some Dephinian words albeit with the modification that the reflex is voiced, i.e. *g and not *k (as in Germanic).  
The sound change, called Hoffman's law (sometimes Hoffman-Cowgill) after Maribel Hoffman's discovery (Hoffman 1988: 201 n. 2) that either Cowgill's law or something very similar to it operates to a certain extent in some Dephinian words albeit with the modification that the reflex is voiced, i.e. *g and not *k (as in Germanic).  


: PIE *gʷih₃wós > *gʷigwós > *gʷígʷos > Deph βιφος /ˈbipʰos/.
: PIE *gʷih₃wós > *gʷigwós > *gʷígʷus > Deph βιφος /ˈbipʰos/ (with analogical lowering of the nominative ending vowel, cf. βιφων acc.)


This sound change must predate the change of the labiovelars to labials, as there is no attested **βιυς /biːus/ which would be the regular outcome of a form **bíh₃wós with intervocalic w- and laryngeal deletion.
This sound change must predate the change of the labiovelars to labials, as there is no attested **βιυς /biːus/ which would be the regular outcome of a form **bíh₃wós with intervocalic w- and laryngeal deletion.


===Misc. changes pilfered from Proto-Albanian and Proto-Greek===
===Misc. changes pilfered from Proto-Albanian and Proto-Greek===

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