Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

>>the fact there is no <h> in Hittite proves nothing.
>>What about Kurylowicz's data :
>>hapa "river" from H2ap
>>apa "behind" from H2ap
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> Isn't that simply *h2óp- ~ *h2ap-' vs. *h2pó?
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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Personally, I disagree with the graphic conversion
of laryngeals into vowels
in any other language than Greek

In Hittite, the unstressed H2_p was
either H2°p- with a schwa
or H1p > #p- that is to say zero.

And by the way,
Greek epi can be from H2p > H1p > ep
because of phonotactic devoicing of H2.

Arnaud
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