Re: [tied] Re: Laryngeals in IE

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 31694
Date: 2004-04-03

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 08:51:24 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>Yes, but <Xarri> is the self-designaton of the Indo-Iranians and is
>therefore a loanword in the Assyrian text. So my money I still on
>Möller to be the first to recognize a laryngeal in a written
>representation of an IE gloss.

But Assyrian "Harri" is nowadays more correctly read as
Hurri, so Möller's idea that it was connected with something
IE was, as it turns out, wrong.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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