Re: Re[6]: [tied] PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

I've read that Armenian /h-/ is a relic of laryngeals
but that it's not consistent. Can anyone elaborate?

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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> Okay, I see what you're saying BUT wasn't the same
> also true of IE? That no words began with vowels but
> rather HV?
> And Gmc. glottal stops had to come from somewhere.
> If
> not inherited from a coalescence of IE laryngeals,
> where do they come from?
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> Armenian has h as initial in many words
> coming out of nowhere.
> Even though I think Gmc had *? as a phoneme,
> we don't need to posit that there is a
> continuity between English or German ?
> just being some kind of demarcative tool
> and Gmc *? a real phoneme.
>
> Arnaud
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