[tied] Re: Pretonic laryngeals in roots

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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

> > *-tl/rom, *-tl/rah2 > *-tHl/rom, *-tHl/rah2 after consonantal *h2
> > and *h1, e.g. *páh2-tHlom > Lat. pa:bulum, *sjuh1-tHláh2 > Lat.
> > su:bula, but *póh3-tlom > Lat. po:culum. Then Lat. -idus < *-etHo-

> I don't get it. The supposed preaspiration caused by h1 and h2 results
> in voicing?? Can it be explained succinctly[...]?

Yes. PIE *dH etc. > Italic *tH. The voiceless aspirates then became
fricatives. In Latin, they became voiced after vowels (well, at least
before vowels and /r/) and, so far as we can tell, then hardened to
voiced stops.

Richard.