Re: Re[4]: [tied] Re: *a/*a: ablaut

The plene spelling.

Anyway, the length of /e:/ in Hittite is irrelevant (all
short /e/'s are lengthened when stressed in Hittite). What
matters is the Ablaut /e:/ ~ /0/. In a word like *k^é:rd,
*k^r.d-', the evidence supports that overwhelmingly. We have
*/e:/ in Armenian sirt, Greek kê:r, Old Prussian seyr,
Hittite ki:r and Skt. ha:rdi; and we have zero grade in
Greek kardía, Latin cor, OIrish cride, Lithuanian s^irdis,
OCS sIrdIce, Hittite kardiyas and Sanskrit hr.d-.

Anatolian *pé:r, *pr.nás
(Pre-PIE **pí:r-an).

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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I've looked at the data
in the Chicago Hittite dictionary.

The word house is
written NOM. E-er
with a logogram E "house".
The logogram is also used
for oblique cases
Either par-ni- or E-i

What is the reason why
E- should be written pe:r or pi:r ?

This looks like a conventional
reading for something we don't know.

Is there a single attestation
of NOM. E being rendered
otherwise than logogrammatically ?

What is this plene writing ?
for the word "house" ?

Arnaud

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