[tied] Re: IE *h3 and voice

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:

> Etherman23:
> > Okay, crazy idea time. Supposing the glottalic
> > theory is right, could *H3 actually be *p'?
>
> Considering that *h3 disappears except in Anatolian,
> just like *h2, and given that Anatolian shows *x...
> No. Reconstructing a labial would be based on no
> IE evidence at all and isn't even needed. There are
> better solutions. Surmising /hW/ or /`/ suffices
> without theorizing more than we need.
>
>
> = gLeN

But supposing glottalization or other strengthening of articulation
(p:) having developed from a previous state of the series, and,
thereby eliminating the sound that would have been initial /b/, would
this have left an empty gap in the series?
Are other candidates to be considered instead of h3?
h1 = glottal stop?
Has this previous history of the medial series been taken into account
by those trying to link PIE to Kartvelian, Inuit, Etruscan?
That is: have you been looking for a labial stop in correspondencies?

Lars