Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

On 2008-03-23 02:37, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

> If the laryngeal merely preserved the quality of the
> original vowel, we would always have laryngeals of the same
> colouring [the same subscript in terms of the laryngeal
> theory] on both ends of the vowel. The fact that we do have
> *h2eh1, *h3eh2/*h2eh3 etc. disproves that. The fact that we
> _don't_ seem to have *h1eh1, *h2eh2 ot *h3eh3 tends to
> confirm that *h1, *h2 and *h3 were separate phonemes, given
> that consonants do not normally repeat themselves in PIE
> roots (reduplications excepted).

But examples like *h1reh1- 'row', *h2auh2o- 'grandfather' and *ses-
'sleep, rest' suggest that this root-structure constraint did not apply
to fricatives.

Piotr