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- noun Plural form of
laryngeal .
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AFAIK a solution was only suggested a few years ago, namely that the PIE word had a */gʲH3/ cluster in this place, not a single consonant, and when the "laryngeals" started to disappear, the cluster was interpreted in different ways in different daughter languages.
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Once fossilized in '30' and '40' and once laryngeals gave way to compensatory lengthening, the decads from 50 to 90 were prone to analogical lengthening.
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However after the loss of laryngeals, *h₃e-h₃elh₁- /xʷe-xʷelh-/ would tend towards *ōl- and would no longer look like reduplication.
The hidden face 2010
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I've included a paragraph or two about the ill-named laryngeals as well.
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Putting laryngeals in places they needn't be is a grave misanalysis on the part of a comparative linguist who's obligated by Logic to find the simplest solutions possible given the available evidence.
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Saying laryngeals come from Indo-Uralic velars/uvulars is one thing, implying that there was an alternation retained in Indo-European still seems out there.
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And he's simply wrong about laryngeals since it's understood now that laryngeals sometimes surface later on as velar stops in Greek and Latin, as in the case of later reflexes of *-eh₂-s.
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The fortition of laryngeals before the sibilant is just commonsense linguistics and doesn't require a more fanciful explanation beyond that.
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The phenomena exhibited in these two protolanguages are surely one and the same and therefore do not require laryngeals to explain them.
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Nevertheless I am starting to feel more for the laryngeals from velars theory of Kortlandt. much like how the gen. *-s comes from *-ti according to Kortlandt dual ending *-h1 comes from *-ki.
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