"Hermann goes even further: complete forms (e.g. *deiwos) cannot be reconstructed at all, only single sounds, and even these are meant as approximations only, not as phonetically completely correct reconstructions."
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Szemerényi O. 1996 Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics (translated from German 1990, with additional notes and references) Oxford, OUP. page 33.
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