Re: Kluge's Law in Italic? (was: Volcae and Volsci)

From: stlatos
Message: 68417
Date: 2012-01-25

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:
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> According to Lehmann (PIE Phon. chh. 11-14), I have confused *h2 and *h4 in much of my post. Lehmann's notation is somewhat tricky, but when he divided de Saussure's /a/-coloring laryngeal -A- into two phones, -x- denoted our *h2 (reflected as a consonant in Hittite when PIE */e/ followed) and -h- denoted *h4 (not so reflected).


Hittite ev. can't be used to determine "laryngeals" in that way. There are many opt. changes (including x>X>q>k by u and vice versa ( *
pYónt-x-kó+ = small path / channel > pantice:s = entrails L; panduha- = stomach H; ).