Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

>
> All the cuneiform signs read conventionally *VC originally had a

consonantal

> onset.

What's the evidence for that? I mean aside from the theoretical
assumption that all PIE roots were of the form CVC, even though no IE
language supports that assumption.