Re: [tied] wre:g^, wro:g^ 'break'

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 23:02:47 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>28-06-03 21:57, Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
>> Richard:
>> Has anyone any further useful thoughts on the matter?
>
>I don't know how useful it may be, but it seems to me there's a
>surprisingly high number of well-known PIE roots with a final
>unaspirated voiced stop (usually *g^, more rarely *d) preceded by a
>laryngeal. For example:
>
>*bHerh2g^- as in 'birch'
>*swah2d- as in 'sweet'
>*bHah2g^- as in 'beech'
>*sah2g^- as in 'seek'
>*wrah2d- as in 'root'
>... and now this *wreh1g^- thing.
>
>Any _further_ thoughts?

I've been wondering occasionally about that too. It doesn't seem to make
any sense: /xg/, /hg/, etc. are bizarre consonant clusters. No further
thoughts, I'm afraid.


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