Re: *o:w(a:), egg(s)

At 5:25:35 PM on Tuesday, January 8, 2008, Patrick Ryan
wrote:

[...]

> I am led, by various considerations, to hypothesize that
> the earliest form behind *o:u(a:), egg, was

> *wawaH(a)

Except that it's not *o:u(a:), but rather *o:wyo-.

[...]

> I am therefore proposing that in this word, the exception
> to the rule, the initial phone was a vowel rather than a
> consonant, here a laryngeal (like the, IMHO, mythical *H3).

*h2, actually, if this is indeed a derivative of *h2ewi-
'bird'.

Brian