Re: Horse Sense (was: [tied] Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?)

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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: Re: Horse Sense (was: [tied] Re: Hachmann versus Kossack?)


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> From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
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> > The phonetic realisation of <h> is not one of them. In the passage from
> > PIE to Anatolian the whole obstruent system was radically transformed.
> > The Anatolian languages are of course enormously important as they
> > represent one of the two primary subfamilies of IE, but I wouldn't rely
> > on them to reconstruct PIE phonetics.
> >
> > Piotr
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> Why then did you choose to reconstruct H1albh "white"
> on the sole basic of Anatolian,
> when all the rest of PIE points at H2 ?
>
> Arnaud
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Patrick:


No question about it: 'white' is *Ha(:)l-; *He(:)l-, on the other hand, is
'orange-red'.

*Ha(:)l-bh- probably refers not primarily to the color but to a non-human
creature (-*bh-).

A likely candidate for the honor is the 'dace'.


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