From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 40439
Date: 2005-09-23
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: *kW- "?"
> --- 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.
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Patrick:
German [?] is certainly a reflection of PIE laryngeals.
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