Re: [tied] Re: PIE genitive plural *-o:m, a possible analysis (*wL'

On 2006-05-04 18:57, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> Could you spell out in detail your reasoning for considering the
> initial o- the result of a 'laryngeal' as opposed to the explanation
> offered by Pokorny: "prefix"?

Pokorny's reconstruction is non-laryngeal, so what else could he say?
The fact that we don't see this "prefix" anywhere except in Greek (and
it's precisely in Greek that we would expect to see a pre-liquid
laryngeal) militates against this explanation.

Piotr