[tied] Re: Indo-European /a/

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:

> (b) The alternation of -t- and -th- in the paradigm of Sanskrit
> pantha:h,
> and its Avestan cognate, becomes originally regular if we take it
> back to a
> root *p(o)nt(e)H. You can't do this with long vowels.

Well I'm not saying there are no laryngeals. At least some of the I-Ir.
aspirates (both voiced and unvoiced) have their origin in
stop+laryngeal. The Anatolian and Armenian languages also present some
direct evidence for them.