From: Rick McCallister
Message: 53122
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
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> 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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