Re: Which laryngeal in "father"?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Christopher Culver <crculver@...> wrote:

> I'm confused by a bit in Werner Winter's article on Tocharian in
> Routledge's "The Indo-European Languages". On page 158 we see:
>
> "Questions remain as to the reflexes of laryngeals. PIE *h1 definitely
> yielded CToch. *a in peak position (cf Toch. B pa:cer 'father')"
>
> Now, I thought that the 'father' was *ph2ter. Is this a typo, or is
> there a school that believes that the h1 was present in that word
> instead of h2?

I've always seen it as H2. If it were H1 we'd expect Greek peter
instead of the attested pater.