Re: [tied]Slavic *go~sI( it was Re: husk)

17-10-03 21:24, alex wrote:

> I ask myself if in fact this alternation "g" versus "h" and "k" versus
> "h" shouldn't be in fact an older group "gh","kh" where the languages
> preserved the "k" or "g" of "kh/gh" or they preserved the "h" from these
> "kh/gh" pretty depending on the phonological context or the simply
> habbit.

No!!! <h> (pronounced as [H], a breathy-voiced glottal glide) is the
regular Ukrainian development (via a voiced velar fricative) of Slavic
*g, no matter what its origin (PIE *g, *gW, *gH or *gWH). It corresponds
to Polish or Russian <g>:

g > G > H

Piotr