Re: Laryngeal h4

On 2008-11-04 23:51, Andrew Jarrette wrote:

> I have seen that a fourth laryngeal h4 has been posited for those
> cognates where Latin or Greek has <a-> but Hittite has <a-> too (no
> <ha-> from *h2e-). I would like to ask: is it possible that we could
> be dealing here with *h1a-, with <a> a wholly separate vowel,
> unaffected by the preceding *h1, which in Hittite appears as Ø- in onset?

Definitely.

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/38439

Piotr