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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

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> Patrick:
>
> Any cuneiform sign of the shape VC probably should be understood to

read

> ?VC.
>
> This is presumably true of hieroglyphic Hittite and the Luwian

syllabary.

>
> German <ein> is really [?ain]. Since no (native) German word can

begin with

> a vowel, it is superfluous to write it.
>
> ***

Perhaps I should have been more explicit. I'm talking about phonemic
consonants.