Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

On 2008-03-23 12:39, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

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> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:14:56 +0100, "fournet.arnaud"
> <fournet.arnaud@... <mailto:fournet.arnaud%40wanadoo.fr>> wrote:

> >Do we have statistics about this ?
>
> I haven't seen any. If I count the roots with initial
> laryngeal in LIV, I get the following statistic:
>
> H- 14 (unknown laryngeal)
> h1- 42
> h2- 83
> h3- 21
>
> That would seem to be significant enough to establish a
> ranking: (1) *h2, (2) *h1, (3) *h3.

... which agrees quite well with the frequency of their occurrence in
derivational suffixes and inflections. *h2 occurs e.g. in fem. *-ih2,
fem. or coll *-h2, 1sg. pf. *-h2a, 2sg. pf. *-th2a, factitive *-(e)h2-;
*h1 in stative *-(e)h1-, desiderative *-h1se/o-, optative *-j(e)h1-,
instr.sg. *-(e)h1, nom.du. neuter *-ih1. *h3 is rare; it occurs
(probably) in nom.du. anim. *-oh3, in the "Hoffmann suffix" *-h3(o)n-
and hardly anywhere else otuside of root morphemes.

Piotr