Re: [tied] Re: Laryngeals in IE

From: Âàäèì Ïîíàðÿäîâ
Message: 31696
Date: 2004-04-03

 
> Yes, but <Xarri> is the self-designaton of the Indo-Iranians and is
> therefore a loanword in the Assyrian text. So my
money I still on
> Möller to be the first to recognize a laryngeal
in a written
> representation of an IE gloss.

Do this <Xarri> in Assyrian mean exactly Indo-Iranians? And what was the time when the text was written? If it is the beginning of the 1st millenium BC when Iranians were in a close contact with Assyrians, the IE laringeals had surely been lost in Indo-Iranian long before.