--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> There is some controversy over the issue. Initial *h3(V)-
> may be reflected as h- in Hittite (although other
> etymologies would suggest 0-). We would have:
>
> Hitt. Lyc.
> *h2- h- x-
> *h3- h- (0- ?) 0-,
>
> which e.g. Melchert derives from Proto-Anatolian (*h2- >)
> *x- vs. (*h3- >) *h-.
May I just add that, as far as I know, the Lycian "rule" is based on
a single example, the presumed verb <epirijeti> appearing in TL 111.
The word reminded Laroche about Hitt. <happariya-> 'do commerce', so
he translated something about selling a place in the tomb claiming
that the text set a penalty for that. However, the context is
completely destroyed, and the example is a loner, so I find it
exessively risky to base a theory of laryngeal reflection, and of
diversified and surprising reflection at that, on such an example. I
would find it highly interesting if other examples could be adduced.
Jens