Re: [tied] Centum in Vedic?

In phonetic terms, it is a breathy-voiced glottal approximant (or "glide"). It is often called half-voiced -- the sort of thing many English-speakers use as the intervocalic variant of /h/ in <behind> or <aha!>. It is also an off-glide of this kind that typically accompanies breathy-voiced (murmured) stops, i.e. [bH] etc.

Piotr

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> In "A Sanskrit Grammar" ..Manfred Mayrhofer ..writes >"h is a voiced aspirate, -h (visarga) a voiceless aspirate. This has always puzzled me! What, precisely, is a "voiced aspirate"? That seems to me a contradiction in terms. Is some kind of voiced pharyngeal or laryngeal meant? Peter
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