From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 53113
Date: 2008-02-14
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From: Rick McCallister
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 6:47 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: Re[6]: [tied] PIE *a -- a preliminary
checklist
I've read that Armenian /h-/ is a relic of laryngeals
but that it's not consistent. Can anyone elaborate?
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The theory I have learned and which looks good enough
is that
Any initial unvoiced became aspirated
C > Ch
Where there is no initial then zero > h
Zero can come from any previous phoneme
of PIE into proto-Armenian.
H p etc
So proto-Armenian went thru a stage when
there was no laryngeal nowhere
and reorganized something new
where #h has its place.
People who think /h/ is a relic of laryngeals
have not studied Armenian well enough.
pater > ayer > (new) hayr
Is h continuation of PIE H ?
Absurd.
Arnaud
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