Re: Latin -idus as from dH- too

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 55220
Date: 2008-03-15

On 2008-03-15 17:37, Brian M. Scott wrote:

> At 11:44:10 AM on Saturday, March 15, 2008, alexandru_mg3
> wrote:

> > 1. Do you have other syllabification for ph2ter but
> > /pVX-ter/ (something like p&x-ter) Piotr?
>
> Sure: something like [pa"te:r], where [a"] is turned-a,
> from an earlier stage that could have been something like
> [pXte:r], possibly with some sort of prop vowel.
>
> Brian

Not to mention the fact that there are languages with all kinds of
voiceless, breathy-voiced (murmured) or pharyngealised vowels, and that
true syllabic fricatives (or "fricative vowels") are also attested.

Piotr