Re: Germanic 'bear'

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 68776
Date: 2012-03-05

W dniu 2012-03-05 21:58, guestu5er pisze:
> >I made it clear that I supported the *g^Hwer- 'etymology'
>
> BTW: how is supposed /g^/, and /g^Hw/ to have been pronounced
> approximately? (Which IPA/API sign fits /g^/ and /H/ ?)
>
> Thank you.
>
> George

In this kind of rough ISO-8859-1-friendly transcription, <H> stands for
aspiration (= IPA raised [h]). The caret (<^>) over a <k> or <g> marks
the PIE dorsal stops which underwent the "satem" development in some
branches, developing unconditionally into central/coronal
affricates/fricatives. They are usually believed to have been pre-velars
(IPA [c, J]), but there is also an alternative interpretation, according
to which PIE *k^ = IPA [k] (plain velar) and PIE *k = IPA [q]
(post-velar, uvular).

Piotr