From: squilluncus
Message: 39896
Date: 2005-09-08
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, glen gordon <glengordon01@...> wrote:
Personally I think that *h1 was medially
> plain /h/ in IE. Think of the /h/ as a lazy glottal
> stop :)
In the Cockney phenomenon of 'misplacing one's h-es' we can perceive
an /h/ being replaced by /'). To keep up distinction former /'/ before
initial vowel was substituted with /h/ to keep the distinction:
"'e was 'olding an happle hin 'is 'and".
One Swedish dialect (Roslagen) shows a similar pattern:
"'ästen häter 'ö" for "hästen äter hö" (The horse eats hey).
During the twenties and thirties a lot of "häst-sprit" smuggled from
Estonia was consumed in that area.
(Normal Sw.: häst = horse, est = Estonian).
Perhaps we should laborate with laryngeals *h1a *h1b representing /h/
and /'/ with some dialectal interchangeability.
Lars