[tied] Re: PIE laringeals

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

> Is <ak(k)-u>, 'may he die', not written /a-ku/?
>
> The Sumero-Akkadian sign for /a/ was used in Hittite.

Yes, but why need it have implied an initial consonant in Hittite?
Consider iS-ta-an-da-a-it, which I have seen interpreted as
/iStanta:it/ 'delayed'.

Richard.