Re: [tied] Laryngeals revisited

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

> h1 was probably /h/ or /?/.
> h2 may have been a velar or post-velar fricative.
> h3 may have been voiced (though evidence is slim) and may have been
> rounded.

My own personal feelings are:
h1 was earlier /h/ and then /?/.
h2 was earlier /x/ and then /h/.
h3 was earliest /¿/, earlier /xW/, and then /hW/.

> If you're suggesting that h2 was a rounded x, you're not likely to
> be right. But labialised consonants do occur before /t/, eg in
> *nekWt = night.

Yet /kW/ did affect the vowel-quality in at least some words,
including *nekWt-s 'night', given Greek nux, nuktos and Latin nox,
noctis. Words such as *wekWs/*wokWs 'word, voice' may have also been
affected.

- Rob