Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

And what are those reasons?

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 2008-02-13 17:36, fournet.arnaud wrote:
>
> Why should it be impossible? I'm talking about
> fundamental
> (non-conditioned, etymological) *a. It may appear in
> any environment,
> also next to an *h1. If you prefer, you can
> reconstruct the 'white' word
> as *albHó-, but there are good reasons to believe
> that PIE did not have
> roots without a consonantal onset, and this one
> can't be *h2albH-, since
> Hittite alpa- 'cloud' has no <h->.

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