*gwh in Gmc.

[Stefan Georg]

>The consonants in *gwhen-(6)-, 'beat', I believe to have originally been
>early IE *gwVHVn- so that *gwh is not, as I believe Miguel would have it, a
>velarization of *gh but rather the resolution of an accentually  occasioned
>juxtaposition of *gw + *H.

>This particular root is, I believe, found in Coptic hine, 'row', for which I
>would amend the current hieroglyphic transcription of Xn(j) to *Xjn(j).

>Possibly it may have a distant reflex in Arabic sha?an-un, 'disheveled hair,
>a derivation of sha??a, 'scatter, disperse'.

Coptic and Arabic are not known to be Indo-European languages, nor is
there any evidence that Afro-Asiatic, the language family Coptic and
Arabic belong to, may be related, however distantly, to
Indo-European. It is, thus, not possible that an Indo-European root
may be "found" in Coptic.