Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives/SIBUN

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From: "P&G" <petegray@...>
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Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: PIE's closest relatives/SIBUN


> The Greek voiced form may simply be by analogy with the voiced forms in
> "eight": ogdoos etc. The origin of the voicing in 8 remains obscure, but
> laryngeals have been dragged into it. It is one of the bits of evidence
> sometimes used to prove that h3 was voiced. The presence of a laryngeal
at
> the end of 8 seems clear (Sanskrit shows -au and -a, and cases with
> both -a- and -a:-), and the ending -o: points to -h3.

Hardly. The ending was *-oh1, not *-eh3. You have *h3ekWih1 > OCS oc^i,
Greek osse in which -e shows that the dual ending was *-h1 and not *-h3.

Mate