Re: Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:03:30 -0000, "tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...>" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...>

wrote:

> >> On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 20:42:39 +0000, "Glen Gordon"
> >> <glengordon01@...> wrote:
> >>
> >
>
> >And could the otherwise unexplained pH/b, dH/t, etc alternatation

be

> >explained as the result of a "hidden" nasal?
>
> The interchange mbh ~ mb is common in IE. I remember reading an
> article about a possible rule: /mbh/ directly before the accent,
> elsewhere /mb/, but I don't remember where.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

One example of which is Sanskrit for heart, which presupposes an
initial gH^ instead of k^ found elsewhere. I believe I saw somewhere
Georgian m-kert (approx!) "heart" or "breast" (now I can't locate it)
as a Nostratic cognate (not surprising that the root is at least
Nostratic given the many k-r- words I found). That might corroborate
my above claim.

Torsten