Re: [tied] Re: Schleicher's Tale

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:55:18 +0100, P&G <petegray@...> wrote:

>>*&1 is a syllabic laryngeal. It was
>>there before the breakup of PIE.
>
>Undoubtedly you are, as always, right. But can you prove it? Can you show
>that *&1smen did not have an initial consonant cluster, simplified within
>each daughter language?

Do you mean *h1smén ([hsmén] or [?smén])?


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