From: stlatos
Message: 68418
Date: 2012-01-25
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@> wrote:For more ev.:
> >
> > 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).
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> 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; ).
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