Re: [tied] *es- or *h1es- ?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...> wrote:
> >
> > That's the standard theory but not a single IE language lacks
> > native words with initial vowels.
>
> I had always understood that Farsi was an IE language.

But you don't mean to imply that Farsi has no vowel-initial
words, do you?

Farsi has asb 'horse', âb 'water', ân 'that', emruz 'today',
in 'this', onogh 'neck', and ostokhân 'bone', and all native
words, to name only a few.

David