Re: Pretonic laryngeals in roots

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-03-15 22:37, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Countersuggestion: those cases are caused by 'reduced grade' of
> > that vowel, inserted by what Glen used to call 'paradigmatic
> > resistance', cf Hittite e:dmi, adanzi, not **danzi.
>
> A prosodically weak vowel could perhaps work for initial *h1, but
> what about *h2 and *h3, with their consonantal reflexes in
> Anatolian?

I checked LIV, since that's what I have, and except for *h2neh3-
"tadeln", verbal roots of the form *HCVC- with cognates in Hittite are
all *HwVC-. They might as well be an exception to the proposal.

> They all behave in the same way as regards vowel-lengthening in
> compounds, etc.

See above.

> Then if Olsen is right (as I think she is) about the "preaspirating"
> effect of *h2 and *h1, they belong to the same natural class
> (presumably of fricatives, since *h2 was quite clearly a fricative).

Examples?



Torsten