Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

From: G&P
Message: 61569
Date: 2008-11-12

>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 ?

Laryngeals are not only established by vowel colouring.  For example (If my memory is right) h2 will cause aspiration of a preceding voiceless stop, but h1 won’t.  h2 appears in Anatolian, but h1 doesn’t.

Peter