From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 56239
Date: 2008-03-29
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From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <miguelc@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] RE: 'Vocalic Theory'
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:18:20 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> <miguelc@...> wrote:
>
>
> >The fact that *o and *e: are not coloured by laryngeals is
> >pretty well established. The non-colouring of *e: was
> >already demonstrated by Eichner in 1973 on the basis of such
> >Anatolian data as Hitt. mehur 'time' < *mé:h2-wr., hekur
> >'summit' < *h2é:k^-wr, sehur 'urine' < *séh2-wr.
>
> Obviously *<sé:h2-wr.>. *<séh2wr.> would have given +sahur.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...
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More specious reasoning.
Eichner demonstrated nothing, he merely observed and described.
My approach explains the length of the vowels in non-Anatolian PIE.
Again, how did you arrive at *H2 for this 'laryngeal' represented by Hittite
<h>?
And do not say: a little bird told me.
Patrick
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