Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

Interesting. This makes me wonder if a contrast
between voiced, unvoiced and aspirate stops could be
due to the combination of stop + laryngeal.

--- etherman23 <etherman23@...> wrote:

> --- 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.
>
>

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