Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

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

*H2 wasn't voiced to begin with. In Indo-Aryan it aspirates stops
without voicing them. The same is true for *H1. Only *H3 causes any
voicing.