From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 55212
Date: 2008-03-15
>aspiration
> On 2008-03-15 15:01, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > I need to add that dHugh2te'r itself HAVING a VOCALIZED
> > LARYNGEAL SHOWS THE ASPIRATION OF g > gh but NOT the pre-
> > of -t-PIE
>
> This particular type of aspiration by *h2 is Indo-Iranian and not
> (Ved. duhitá: but Gk. tHugáte:r). The pre-Indo-Aryan phonetic[hI],
> realisation of interconsonantal *h2 must have been something like *
> since the initial syllable may "make a position" (i.e. scan asheavy) in
> the RV (*dHug,hI,tá:(r) -- the commas indicate syllableboundaries).
> Similarly, we have pr.tHiví: < *pr.t,hI,wíh < *pl.th2w-íh2 (but Gk.Really, Piotr?
> platús), etc. Your paradoxes result from confusing PIE phonetic
> processes with branch-specific ones.
>
> Piotr