Re: Short and long vowels

From: Tom Brophey
Message: 39424
Date: 2005-07-25

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
> Finally, we have 'father', the 'feeder'. Rather than connecting it
with
> *pa:-, I would connect it with the derived root *p6-t- (*pH2-té-),
which,
> when combined, gives us *pH2-t-á:tr.-. For euphony, this was
simplified to
> *pH2{t}-tér."

I am surprised by this reconstruction: I had expected you to derive the
*-H2- as a reduced form of *-aH- or *-Ha-. Is it that for lack of
Nostratic evidence you can't determine which? Or might there perhaps
have been an original naked laryngeal between consonants?