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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "jouppe" <jouppe@...> wrote:
>
> I reposted a correction 5 minutes later:
>
> Try:
> http://koti.welho.com/jschalin/index.htm for the intro or
> http://koti.welho.com/jschalin/lexiconie.htm directly to the
> etymologies.
>
> I'm afraid there will sure be one or two errors in the IE
> reconstructions since I converted the transcription in the middle of
> the night. I should make a print out and read them through.
>
> If we use capital H for aspiration here on the net, how do we avoid
> mix-ups with the symbol for "any laryngeal not possible to know
> which 'H'"? In my lexicon this conflict did not arise once. Was it a
> coincidence? Anyone know of an example of a cluster g-H, b-H or d-H?
>
> Jouppe
IMO there are a few, but I'm not sure how many. In Indo-Iranian *H1
and H2 aspirate a preceding stop, whether voiced or not. This can be
seen in some variants where I-Ir ponts to a voiced aspirate while
other languages point to a plain voiced stop. One example I can give
is that of the first person sg. pronoun. It's reconstructed as *H1me
(Greek tells us that the laryngeal is *H1). In the nominative sg.
there's an oddball form. There are several variants. Some languages
point to a long final vowel, others don't. Some languages
unambiguously point to a plain voiced stop, but I-Ir. points to a
voiced aspirated stop. I would suggest a reconstruction something like
*H1eg^H1om where the *-H1om element is simply the o-grade of the first
person pronoun found in the rest of the paradigm. For reasons that are
unclear the final *m could be lost with compensatory lengthening
(perhaps some kind of sandhi phenomena).
Another example: *wed(H), to lead (home). Skt vadhu:, OE weotuma, Gk
ednon.