Re: [tied] PIE Reconstruction

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:

> We can recover the presence of a laryngeal also from:
> (a) the effect on consonants (e.g. aspiration in Indo-Iranian)
> (b) the effect on prosodic patterns (e.g. Brugmann's Law in I-I)
> (c) the effect on accent (e.g. in Serbian, Croat, Lithuanian etc)
> (d) the outcome of voiced resonants (e.g. Greek /a/ versus /na:/
> ~ /ana/) etc.

Oh yes, of course. I'd forgotten about those, sorry.

> Change in vowel quality tells us which laryngeal it is, and since
> this evidence is sometimes lacking, some of our reconstructed roots
> have merely H instead of h1 or h2 or h3.

It seems to me like h2 was the most common laryngeal.

- Rob