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

Thanx a lot
It's intriguing. From my limited knowledge my guess
would be that either the language inherited words from
several dialects of pre-Armenian or --to go out on a
limb-- that the words with initial /h-/ were loanwords
from Anatolian. But I'm sure someone has tested and
debunked the latter idea by now.

--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:47:46 -0800 (PST), Rick
> McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> >I've read that Armenian /h-/ is a relic of
> laryngeals
> >but that it's not consistent. Can anyone elaborate?
>
> See Olsen, p. 765ff.
>
> There are a number of words which reflect a PIE
> laryngeal
> (whether h1, h2 or h3) as h-. The examples given
> are:
>
> *h1er&2s- > heR "strife, spite"
> *h2ais-sk^e- > hayc`em "ask, seek"
> *h2ano- > han "grandmother"
> *h2auh2os > haw "grandfather"
> *h2on(&1)mo- > hoLm "wind"
> *h3odos > hot "smell"
> *h2n.k^- > asanem "reach"
>
> On the other hand, we also have:
> *h1er&2sah2-ye- > eRam "err"
> *h2ais-sk^- > ayc` "investigation"
> *h2ar&3tro- > arawr "plough"
> *h2ork(s)mo- > orm "wall"
> etc.
>
> Despite several attempts to explain the distribution
> (for
> instance by Kortlandt), Olsen concludes that the
> matter
> remains unresolved, as is equally the case with the
> reflexes
> of initial *p- and *s- (which also give either h- or
> zero,
> apparently at random).
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...
>
>

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