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

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From: "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] *es- or *h1es- ?


> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
> wrote:
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> > Patrick:
> >
> > 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.

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Patrick:

The glottal stop is not written in German either but it is very much there.

Perhaps the signs which we read as VC are actually meant to be read ?VC.

As for *CAC-, show me a PIE root that is not of this form.

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