Re: Laryngeals in IE

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> Which means Möller found laryngeals in Hittite text in 1911.
> Presumably the reason this didn't have much impact was that that
> observation was meant to be seen in the context of his conviction
> that IE and Semitic are (closely) related.
>

Come to think of it, no he didn't. It seems he thinks the word in
which the laryngeal occurs was Indo-Iranian, whether because that was
the language of the text, or because he saw the word as loaned into
Hittite from II. Anyway, it was a first for the observation of a
laryngeal in the written representation of an IE language.

Torsten