From: Mate Kapović
Message: 30143
Date: 2004-01-28
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))
> As for */x'/, it may have existed as a short-lived phoneme derived from
> *hj (h = any laryngeal) in some positions (always when word-initial and
> also syllable-initially as proposed by Pinnault [1982]). This explains
> the absence of prothetic vowels before *j in Greek.
So do you agree with the theory that *Hy- gives #z- in Greek as opposed to
*y- which gives #h-?
Mate