On Sun, 04 May 2003 03:05:58 +0000, Glen Gordon
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glengordon01@...> wrote:
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>Miguel:
>>The Indo-Iranian root is actually *ap- (Skt. a:p-, ap-, Av. a:fs^,
>>ap-).
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>Erh, are you sure it's not *xap-? Did laryngeals already die out
>in Indo-Iranian?
LaryngealS (pl.) had died out. Perhaps the reflex of a single merged
laryngeal remained (see e.g. Beekes' Avestan grammar, where he
reconstructs phonemic /?/ in hiatus [altough you can have hiatus
without gllottal stop]). The pronunciation of this single laryngeal
is highly unlikely to have been a voiceless velar (or uvular)
fricative.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...