Re[2]: [tied] Re: Horses' Asses and the Indo-European Homeland

At 3:35:40 PM on Friday, September 26, 2008, Patrick Ryan
wrote:

> Aspiration [h] becomes voiced [H] which is assimilated to
> the quality of the following vowel: [H] + [a] -> [a] + [a]
> -> [aa].

Plain loss of initial [h] is common as mud; is anyone aware
of a real example of this fortitive process?

Brian