The phonlogical identity of IE "y" (especially for Mr. Rasmussen)

Jens Elmegård Rasmussen <elme@...>
Date: Tue Jan 31, 2006 5:16 pm
Subject: Re: Integrating linguistics, archaeology, genetics and
paleoclimatology elmeras2000

I've read the two volumes Mr. Rasmussen's written about Indo-European
and Esquimo-Aleut languages. The explanation for the laryngeal
identities is excellent to show them as H3 = a voiced velar fricative
with "o" shape, H2 = German "ch" as in "[das] Buch", and H1 =
English "h" as in "help". [Myself, I think it likely that is H4
exists, it'd be of a very different sort, like a glottal stop]

HOWEVER, there's a point that caught my attention that I'd like to ask
about here, to bring up for discussion. There was a comparison to the
Esquimo-Aleut "edh" sound (voiced thorn) to the IE "y", in an article
regarding pronouns. I'd like to know: what basis exists for this
assumption?