Re: Laryngeal h4

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 61416
Date: 2008-11-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2008-11-04 23:51, Andrew Jarrette wrote:
>
> > I have seen that a fourth laryngeal h4 has been posited for those
> > cognates where Latin or Greek has <a-> but Hittite has <a-> too (no
> > <ha-> from *h2e-). I would like to ask: is it possible that we could
> > be dealing here with *h1a-, with <a> a wholly separate vowel,
> > unaffected by the preceding *h1, which in Hittite appears as Ø- in
onset?
>
> Definitely.
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/38439
>
> Piotr
>

Thanks forthe reference. It seems we have similar ideas on this
topic. I hope that someone will recognize this possibility and
publish it.

Andrew