Re: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

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From: "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 6:51 PM
Subject: [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
>

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Patrick:

Why could the neuter plural ending -*ih2 not be -i-?a ???