Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 52676
Date: 2008-02-11

On 2008-02-11 19:33, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> This, if course, brings up the question of how one would prefer to notate
> the sequence *oH2 where we expect an *o-quality in the absence of the
> 'laryngeal'; I guess I would prefer *oH2 but I assume you would want *aH2?

This has been discussed a lot in the literature. The bottom line is that
*o, unlike *e, was not coloured by an adjacent *h2 (neither was long
*e:, for that matter).

Piotr