Piotr:
> Actually, if *h3 was distinctively voiced (note its
> voicing effect in the Hoffmann compounds and in
> *pi-bh3-e-), one would expect the thematic vowel to
> have become *o prior to, and independently of, the
> laryngeal coloration.
I'm convinced now that the original pronunciation of
*h3 was still /hW/. I can see how /hW/ can be then
later voiced to /H/ (IPA hooked-h) in much the same
way as English "wh" has been voiced in dialects like
my own.
During the time of "Schwa Diffusion", the
differentiation of schwa before voiced segments,
being that *h3 was voiceless, we'd still expect *e
as the outcome... Dammit. (I don't like the 1ps with
*h3 either.)
= gLeN
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