Re: Laryngeals Indo-Uralic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "caotope" <johnvertical@> wrote:

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>>>>>> (The correspondence is also non-trivial so the point of
>>>>>> divergence needs to be pre-PU or pre-PIE anyway.)

>>>>> I don't understand the last sentence.

>>>> Uralic *ä and IE *ei/*i: cannot be loaned from a common form.

>>> *jän,- and *in,- can.

>> No. One is glide+open vowel, the other a close vowel.

> Which one is glide plus open vowel and which one is a close vowel?

Obviously *jän,- is glide plus open vowel and *in,- is a close
vowel.

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Brian