Pinault's law is a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) phonological rule named after the French Indo-Europeanist Georges-Jean Pinault who discovered it.

According to this rule, PIE laryngeals disappear between an underlying non-syllabic consonant (i.e. an obstruent or sonorant) and *y. Examples can be seen in the formation of imperfective verbs by appending *-yeti to the stem. Compare:

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  • Pinault, G-J. (1982). A neglected phonetic law: The reduction of the Indo-European laryngeals in internal syllables before yod (Papers from the 5th International Conference on Historical Linguistics ed.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 265–272. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
  • Kapović, Mate (2008). Uvod u indoeuropsku lingvistiku (in Croatian). Zagreb: Matica hrvatska. ISBN 978-953-150-847-6.
  • Ringe, Donald A. (2017). From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (2 ed.). Oxford. pp. 16–17. ISBN 978-0-19-183457-8. OCLC 979813633.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)