Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61529
Date: 2008-11-11

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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>



> There are some staunch a-deniers, but many mainstream IE-ists now
> admit that *a/*a: is a legitimate PIE alternation beside *e/*o and
> *e/*e:.

I'll have to take your word for it. Jasanoff doesn't convince me.

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Another problem is :
how do we establish the existence of H1 and H2
if at the same time, we admit a purely vocalic a/a: and e/e: ablaut ?
Admitting that kind of ablauts destroys the groundwork of the laryngalist
theory.
I'd like to have more explanations.

A.
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> *perh3-, *melh2- or *h2anh1-, with a final consonant cluster.

I've grown suspicious of those roots with laryngeals in auslaut,
ghosts of departed quantities, most likely.
Torsten

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In the case of *h2anh1-
we have Egyptian &_n_x to witness that the PIE reconstruction is legitimate.

A.

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