Re: [tied] *es- or *h1es- ?

From: etherman23
Message: 41137
Date: 2005-10-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
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> ***
> Patrick:
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> No PIE root may begin with a vowel.

That's the standard theory but not a single IE language lacks native
words with initial vowels. Hittite, which generally retains
laryngeals, has no attested laryngeal for PIE *es. The idea that all
PIE words began with a consonant should be tossed in the garbage along
with the theory that all PIE roots are of the form CeC.