Typology and the phonetics of laryngeals

[proto-language]

Dear Alexander and IEists:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexander S. Nikolaev" <pie at AN3039.spb.edu>
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 5:36 PM

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> The two other examples of H3-based voicing in PIE are
> 1) proto-Celtic word *abon 'river' < PIE *H2ep-H3on ~
> 'that, which has the running water'
> (where *H3on is a "grundsprachliches Posessivsuffix")

[PR]
Would you mind saying who is proposing -*H3on as an archaic possessive
suffix?

And if there was such a possessive sufiix, would it not preferably mean
'riverine'?

Pat