Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

Patrick Ryan wrote:

> With *H2owi-s, I do not think it should be reconstructed with a 'laryngeal'.
> I believe it is best analyzed as a reduplicated *wo, 'curl': *wówo- becomes
> *wéu-, 'all curls' + "*ye-, '-like' = *wowéi-, 'all curly'; at this point,
> the avoidance of the same phone in subsequent syllables rule came into
> effect, and the the initial *w as metathesized: *ówwi- became *ówi-
> (*ma:-ma: becomes *á:mma:).

Funny. This is one of those words in which the laryngeal is directly
attested by courtesy of the Anatolian languages -- Luwian h-, Lycian x-.
The latter reflex, by the way, leaves little doubt that the PIE sound
was *h2.

Piotr