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

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