Re: Pre-Germanic speculation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:51:49 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
>
> > In the case of "wine", there are good reasons to believe that
> >> the Semitic word was borrowed from IE. Anatolian wiyana- and

*woi

> >(h1)nom
> >> can easily be derived from the root *weih1- "to wind", which

yields

> >many
> >> other denominations for vine- and ivy-like plants.
> >>
> >> PIE *woy(h1)nom would easily have given Semitic acc. *wayna-m ->
> >nom.
> >> *waynu-m.
> >>
> >
> >Is PIE *w-y(h1)- related to vi- "two" in Latin viginta etc
> >(semantically via "wind/twine")?
>
> No, that's *h1wi- (presumably a variant of *dwi-).
>

What is the evidence for the initial laryngeal?

Torsten