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

I prefer the "concrete" (surface-true) notation *ah2 to abstract *eh2.
The colouring must have taken place before the loss of the laryngeals
and the compensatory lengthening, since it works in the same way in all
the branches.
Piotr

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It's not at all obvious that it works
in the same way in all branches

I think it remains to be determined
what happened in every single branch

Arnaud
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I believe there is sufficient evidence to reconstruct PIE
*a as an independent phoneme
Piotr
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I definitely disagree

What is your sufficient evidence ?

Arnaud
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