Re: Greek z and IE *j

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:

>
>
> Diverging from recent topics and going back to a subject more typical
> of earlier threads on cybalist, here is my question:
>
> Why does IE initial *j appear sometimes as Greek <z-> and sometimes as
> Greek <h->? I delved into the archives but could not find any
> satisfactory discussion of this problem, mostly by-discussion that

produced

> theories for which there was contradictory evidence. Can anybody

offer a

> solution now?
>
> Andrew

The theory is that *Hj > z in Greek. I don't know the status of the
evidence for or against it.