Re[2]: [tied] Laryngeal h4

At 12:56:50 PM on Thursday, November 6, 2008, etherman23
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:

[...]

>> I actully overlooked one example: *sleh2gW-

> According to Starostin this only occurs in Greek and Old
> English. The Old English, laccan, appears to lack a
> labiovelar (though perhaps this is due to the loss of
> labialization before rounded vowels if OE /a/ was
> rounded).

Do you mean OE <læccan> 'to grasp, to seize'? That appears
to be from PGmc. *lakjan or the like, and I expect that a
labiovelar wouldn't have survived WGmc. gemination and
palatalization even if it was present in PGmc.

Brian