Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')


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> From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

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> Are you saying that PIE had words beginning with a vowel?
> The consensus rather seems to be that all words started with
> at least one consonant.

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Good God, no.

There are some on this list who would take up that cudgel but not I.

I firmly believe all PIE roots AND terminations began with a consonant.

If I ever write PIE *VC, it is only to correspond to the form of an older
PIE notation.

If I write *VC, just automatically correct to *HVC.

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