IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Adam Hyllested]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Richard M. Alderson III wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Adam Hyllested (adahyl at cphling.dk) wrote:

>> The reconstruction for (Pre-)Proto-Slavic *inmen is rather zero grade of
>> *H1neH3mn, i.e. *H1nH3men-.

> The initial laryngeal *must* be *H3, given the evidence of the Greek
> prothetic vowel in _onoma_.  There is no way for *H1 (the "e-colouring
> laryngeal") to yield an initial /o/ in Greek.

Except the umlauting of prothetic *H1 before a syllable containing *o.
This would explain why we also have Greek _enuma-(kratidon)_, and make
us able to reconstruct the IE word for 'tooth' (Greek _odont-_) as
*H1dont-, originally present participle of the root *H1ed- 'eat'.

Adam Hyllested