From: Etherman23
Message: 64972
Date: 2009-09-02
>To claify what I'd said, the loans are generaly *H > k or /S/. The loan hypothesis would not explain the *H~*j correspondence. Or at least it would start making the loan hypothesis very messy.
> > > --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Etherman23 <etherman23@> wrote:
> > > However, there are two distinct sources for the laryngeals. IE *H
> > > also corresponds to Uralic *j. This seems pretty solid in word
> > > initial position, but I'm also coming to think that this held in
> > > non-word initial position as well (perhaps in all syllable
> > > initial positions, it's not perfectly clear yet). This second
> > > correspondence is important because examples of the first
> > > correspondence are often considered to be borrowings from IE into
> > > PU (or one of its daughters).
>
> Loans with *H > *j? Never saw any, tho a number of roots with *-x-
> are reconstructed with *-j- in older works (offhand: at least *pexi-
> "to cook")