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

Nor was it lengthened???


Patrick

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-


> 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
>
>