Re: Re[6]: [tied] PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

Okay, I see what you're saying BUT wasn't the same
also true of IE? That no words began with vowels but
rather HV?
And Gmc. glottal stops had to come from somewhere. If
not inherited from a coalescence of IE laryngeals,
where do they come from?

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Armenian has h as initial in many words
coming out of nowhere.
Even though I think Gmc had *? as a phoneme,
we don't need to posit that there is a
continuity between English or German ?
just being some kind of demarcative tool
and Gmc *? a real phoneme.

Arnaud
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