Re: 7-minute ITCH

Piotr, thank you. That is very helpful.

One more question if you do not mind.

Are there any instances of which you know where an initial *H passes into
*y.

Patrick
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Z or dz (that is to say part of H2)
surfaces as y in Central and Eastern PIE,

Georgian zibziba "wheat"
Latin av-esna "oats"
Hittite seppi [sebi] "wheat"
LAtin (substrate) sab-aia "bier"

Supposedly ""dialectal"" word *yewo

Not an eastern dialectal "word"
a dialectal *form* of an inherited word.

Hittite keeps trace of -z- as -s-
and of -dz- as -zz-.
Western PIE : h2
Eastern : y
Greek : unclear y H2 Z

Orthodox PIE totally misses the connection between these "words"
which are only one.

Now another example is :
Eastern yag-nos "sacred"
LAtin saker (substrate)
Hebrew zaqaq "purify"
From *z_k?- "pure, sacred"

Another big blunder of Orthodox PIE.

Arnaud
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