Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 55487
Date: 2008-03-18

On 2008-03-18 20:02, fournet.arnaud wrote:

> Thank you very much, Piotr,
> Clear and precise.
>
> I suppose you mean *h2-e-gWnó- ?

I mean */h2egWnó-/, realised as *[h2agWnó-]. I prefer "surface-true"
transcriptions of reconstructed forms, since they require fewer
assumptions as to what was and what wasn't phonemic in PIE (which may be
a moot issue even if you analyse a living language, e.g. Modern English).

Piotr