Re: [tied] laryngeal three

From: mkapovic@...
Message: 38600
Date: 2005-06-13

> Hey!
>
> Thank you all for all the informations about *H3. Well, I read some
> articles and I am rather confused on how it really got realized in
> hittite. Of course, commonly accepted opinion (as far as i have read)
> is that initital *h3- yielded h- before *-e- and zero before *-o-...
> i read Kortlandt's article.
>
> I am not clear on the first paragraph when he says Kimball has
> approved his view (above), but then on next page he brings forward
> her three alleged instances of hittite ha- < *h2o...??? I mean, does
> she agree whether *h3 gave zero in a position before *-o- or not?

*h3e- yields 0- (according to Kortlandt and Kimball) but *h2o- > ha-
(according to Kimball). That's how I got it.

Mate