Re: PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 53377
Date: 2008-02-16

>
> 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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H2 stands for 8 proto-phonemes.
4 are voiced :
*& *z *dz *h
4 are glottalized.
? s? ts? th?

Phonotaxis of proto-Indian
not to be confused with indo-iranian
has is that t/k/p followed by any H :
yields th kh ph
but this cannot be projected into PIE
It applies to Proto-Indian alone.

Arnaud

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