>
> 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?