Re: Laryngeals in IE

> Which reminds me of the theory on the origin of the Assyrians in a
> book on ancient astronomy the name the author of which escapes me,
> that they were a Semitic people that conquered a previously IE-
> speaking area, and that therefore the name Assur of their supreme

god

> is really a Proto-II or Proto-Indic loanword *asura. Now the

question

> is, is 'Assur' spelled with a laryngeal (although laryngeals were
> lost in Assyrian by the time of the texts)?
>

Come to think of it, probably a dumb question, since Assyrian
wouldn't have been able to indicate the difference between syllables
with and without an initial laryngeal.

Torsten