Christopher Culver wrote:
> "M. Ranjit Mathews" <ranjit_mathews@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>> The standard derivation from PIE is that the Iranian p and Indic v both
>> came from PIE /qu/; in the case of the word for horse, PIE /equos/ ->
>> Indic as'vaH..
>
> FWIW, the PIE root is now reconstructed almost everywhere with initial
> laryngeal: h1ekw-
So, they decided that the h in Greek hippos couldn't have been a prothetic
addition, eh? As far as I remember, I first read it as equos; it was not
enclosed in slashes. Not that I'd have understood slashes - I'd never
heard
of a phoneme at the time.
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