[tied] Re: Short and long vowels

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

> > Instead of three laryngeals which colored one vowel to three vowels,
> > may there have been initially three vowels which colored one
> > laryngeal to three laryngeals?
> > Since they
> > are already associated with the three vowels, it might not be
> > necessary to assume they have coloring properties.
>
> Unfortunately there are a number of situations where they are not

associated

> with vowels /e o a/, for example the neuter plural ending -ih2, or the
> "prothetic" vowels (< H1, or H2 or H3) in Armenian and Greek.
>
> Peter

Could the prothetic vowels be a shared innovation?