Re: [tied] wre:g^, wro:g^ 'break'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com,
Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 28-06-03 21:57, Richard Wordingham

wrote:

>
> > Richard:
> > Has anyone any further useful

thoughts on the matter?

>
> I don't know how useful it may be,

but it seems to me there's a

> surprisingly high number of

well-known PIE roots with a final

> unaspirated voiced stop (usually

*g^, more rarely *d) preceded by a

> laryngeal. For example:
>
> *bHerh2g^- as in 'birch'
> *swah2d- as in 'sweet'
> *bHah2g^- as in 'beech'
> *sah2g^- as in 'seek'
> *wrah2d- as in 'root'
> ... and now this *wreh1g^- thing.
>
> Any _further_ thoughts?

Well, apart from geminates, stop +
voiced unaspirated stop is not
permitted in PIE. Could the first
stop have become a fricative rather
than assimilate its point of
articulation?
Do you have other examples of h1 +
voiced stop? Your examples are all
h2 + voiced stop.
Richard.