Re: [tied] Texts in PIE

From: Pavel Adamek
Message: 21185
Date: 2003-04-22

> How so? You mean "May you be hallowed your name"??

It sounds weird,
but in Czech, it is "posve^t^ se jméno tvé",
word for word "hallow self name thine"
(using reflexive in the sense of passive).

> I write *g^H as *gH
> and the so-called non-palatal *gH as a uvular *GH.

I see.
But it could be misleading
when every author uses different orthography.
IMHO it is more tranparent
to use the classical orthography
and the questions of phonology
discuss in a separate chapter.

p [p]
t [t]
k^ [k]
k [q]
kW [k_w]

b [b]
d [d] [t_>]
g^ [g] [k_>]
g [G\] [q_>]
gW [g_w] [k_w_>]

bH [b_h]
dH [d_h]
g^H [g_h]
gH [G\_h]
gWH [g_w_h]
h1 [?, h]
h2 [X]
h3 [h_w]

oe [o:]

and so forth.

> There are no palatals in IE.

Let us say that the PIE orthography is historic in wide sense:
it reflects not only the pronunciation in previous stages
but also the pronunciation in future daughter languages.

P.A.