Re: Re[4]: [tied] Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish

I looked a little bit myself.

I would love to add a little animated icon to my mail notifications.

Everyone else would hate it, of course.


Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
To: "Patrick Ryan" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:46 PM
Subject: Re[4]: [tied] Early Indo-European loanwords preserved in Finnish


> At 8:50:34 AM on Wednesday, February 20, 2008, Patrick Ryan
> wrote:
>
> > From: "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
>
> >> At 2:12:50 AM on Wednesday, February 20, 2008, jouppe wrote:
>
> >>> If we use capital H for aspiration here on the net, how do
> >>> we avoid mix-ups with the symbol for "any laryngeal not
> >>> possible to know which 'H'"?
>
> >> In PIE it's possible to use simply *h.
>
> > If you mean <h> = /h/, hoorah!
>
> > But I am sure you do not.
>
> Indeed not; I simply mean that no confusion arises if *h is
> used for an unspecified laryngeal.
>
> > Did you ever find out more about the cute little bat?
>
> No, I spent virtually the whole bloody long weekend marking
> exams. I did take a quick look to see whether any
> information was readily available, but without success.
>
> Brian
>
>
>