[tied] Re: Schwa (Was PIE Reconstruction)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "C. Darwin Goranson"
<cdog_squirrel@...> wrote:

> > >*dhghem (earth) isn't exactly easy to pronounce.
> > That depends what *dh and *gh stand for. We still don't know.
>
> Um, what do you mean by that? Don't they stand for an aspirated "d"
> amd an aspirated "g"? Or is there another side of this I'm missing?

In the glottalic theory they would be simple voiced stops. The sounds
normally reconstructed as plain voiced stops would be unvoiced ejectives.

Still, dhghem is pretty easy to pronounce, IMO.