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

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

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

Perhaps, but where's the evidence for it?

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

I guess that depends on what you mean by *CAC. Is the A your
terminology for any vowel? Or is A a low vowel?