W dniu 2012-02-09 22:59, dgkilday57 pisze:
> Also, how does Olsen account for initial unvoiced aspirates in InIr?
> E.g. Sanskrit <phe'na-> 'foam', Ossetic <fink>; Skt. <kumbha'-> 'peak',
> Avestan <xumba->; Av. <Tanjayenti> 'they draw', <Tanvar-> 'bow'
> (apparently the only exx. with *tH-, Bartholomae reconstructed as
> *tHan,gW-).
The Copenhagen dialect of PIE has voiceless aspirates at least as
positional allophones of tenues, and possibly as marginal phonemes. They
should be distinguished, though, from other "special effects" involving
laryngeals, such as the IIr. contractions of a stop with a _following_
*h2. Olsen's 1988 monograph is devoted to the variants of *-tlom and the
factors conditioning them, not to aspirated voiceless stops in general.
I'll write more about the IIr. words later. Let me only remark now that,
as for 'draw', even LIV has *tHengH- (a root aorist), the only entry
there with initial *tH. The root is attested in several branches, though
the only evidence for the initial aspirate is Iranian. *h2 is ruled out
by Germanic cognates with uncoloured *e in the root syllable.
Piotr