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

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 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

the PIE root for goose is given in my dictionary as *g^han- and the word
"goose" should be related with "yawn" at least in German ( Gans versus
gähnen). Is this relation goose-yawn in other IE languages visible too?

Alex