[tied] Re: *kW- "?"

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 40422
Date: 2005-09-23

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, mkapovic@... wrote:

> Laryngeals have, unlike the "uvulars", as we all know, left many many
> indirect traces - beginning with the prothetic vowels in Greek, the
> Balto-Slavic accentuation, the vowel colouring (*h2e > *h2a has no
> exceptions, unlike the supposed *qe > *qa) etc. However, there are also
> direct traces - _h_ in Anatolian from *h2 and probably *h3, #h- in
> Armenian from *h2- and *h3- and, according to Beekes, te glottal stop in
> Gatha Avestan.

And how about German /?/?

Richard.