Lynx (was Re: Uralic and IE)

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Miguel and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv at wxs.nl>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 10:33 PM

<snip>

> Not sure.  The sg. is <lusan>, and I guess the sg. oblique stem
> must be <lusanan->.  There's one -n- too many (for a simple
> n-stem based on *leuk^-, we'd expect *lusn (*leuko:n), *lusan-
> (*leukn.-), pl. *lusunk` (*leukones)).  Metathesis leunk ~ leukn?
> The Balto-Slavic forms (lu:s^is, rysI), on the other hand,
> suggest *luHk^-, with intrusive laryngeal.

I personally subscribe to the idea of 'laryngeals' but those who oppose it
rightly complain of 'laryngealitis', a condition characterized by explaining
every inconvenient anomaly by supposing a laryngeal ex machina.

And since when do 'laryngeals' intrude? What conditions that rude intrusion?

Why not just simply explain the long vowel as due to compensatory
lengthening? Vnk -> V:k?

Pat

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