Re: [tied] Ermine

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From: "glen gordon" <glengordon01@...>
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Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Ermine


> Whetex_lewx wrote:
> > As my knowledge reaches both germanic h and baltic
> > s^ came from proto-indo-european *kh.
>
> Say wha? Are you using a crappy Romanian-to-English
> program or something? That sentence makey no sense,
> bro.
>
> There is no PIE voiceless aspirate like **kH. It was
> invented to wish away the typological problems
> presented by *k-*g-*gH.
>
> However, if *gH is merely fully voiced and *g is
> half-voiced, then there is no need for **kH to
> balance out the system, nor is there good evidence
> justifying a fourth phoneme in this series anyway.
>
>
> = gLeN

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Patrick:

Both PIE *k and *k(h) lead to Germanic h and Baltic s.

There is plenty of evidence for *k(h) in Indic, for example.

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