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Re: Missing the sky

From:Joe Hill <joe@...>
Date:Friday, March 8, 2002, 21:21
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From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Missing the sky


> Joe Hill wrote: > > > Why doesn't anybody seem to believe in the "schwa indogermanicus" any > > > longer? Even tho' initial [pxt-] would probably delight a Georgian, > >doesn't > > > the fact that a vowel turns up in all daughter languages sort of
suggest
> > > that there were one there right from the start? > > > > > > Andreas (who's not an IEist) > > > > > > > > > >Becuase of Hittite. > > > >Hittite has an /x/ sound where all other IE languages have a vowel. As > >hittite is the earliest attested IE language, and Lanyngeals had been put > >forth before, it makes sense, no? > > Well, I guess it does - otherwise the IEists would reconstruct the words
in
> question like they do. So, does Hettite have something like /pxter/ for > "father"? > > Andreas > >
Well...hittite doesn't have a cognate in it's vocabulary, apparently.