From: Joao S. Lopes Message: 71679 Date: 2014-01-20
But, how about this suffix -yu?
JSLopes
Em Domingo, 19 de Janeiro de 2014 10:25, "richard.wordingham@..." <richard.wordingham@...> escreveu:
In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <vajradanta5@...> wrote:
> *h2we1-yu, would be closer to Hindi "hawa" wind
*h2we1-yu is a typographical error for *h2weh1-yu.
One has to consider the sound changes during the development of the languages considered. If one does not do this, one is swamped by random coincidences. In this case, _hawa_ and *h2weh1 are both suggestive of the wind, so a coincidence is even more probable than normal.
Very few languages have 'proper' consonants corresponding to PIE laryngeals (h1 and h2) - the best one usually gets is a glottal stop, though some of Vedic Sanskrit makes more sense if the laryngeals had not yet vanished. *h2 generally survives as /h/ in Hittite and there are suggestions of survival as /h/ in Armenian, and /h2/ has modified preceding consonants. Other than the last modification, there is no survival of *h2 as a consonant in Indic languages.