From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61217
Date: 2008-11-02
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
>
> On 2008-11-02 10:36, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
>
>> Maybe you can label *k^uh2on- pre-PIE if you prefer keeping *k^won- for
>> PIE
>> proper.
>
> But *h2 is not a universal phonetic symbol but a traditional label for
> one of the PIE phonemes. It was not lost between vowels in PIE, so I
> find no justification for the proposed reconstruction.
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You have explained before
that in phu-o < *bhu , H-o the u was short because H was syllabically
initial,
why should it not apply here to *k^u , H2-on ?
The context (and syllabic cut) is the same.
Arnaud
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>> Does this word appear in Anatolian ?
>
> Yes, but in Hittite it's hidden under the sumerogram UR.ZÍR. In
> Hieroglyphic Luwian we have <zu-wa-na/i-> (Melchert's reading of the
> initial syllable). Before you ask, *h2 was not lost in this position in
> Luwian.
>
> Piotr
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Apart from *bhuH-o
Do you have another example of sequence uH2o ?
or even -uHx-o
Arnaud