`cognate'

[Adam Hyllested]

On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Sean Crist wrote:

>>> I'm sure it says PIE *<p at ter> in your manuscript (+ diacritics on the
>>> <e>).

>> Yes, it does, and my posting should have read `p at ter', but I slipped up.

> At least according to Don Ringe, this word should be reconstructed
> *pH2te'r.  I should ask him what the arguments are in favor of that
> reconstruction, since I don't know myself.

It is more or less the same reconstruction. <@> is (originally, at
least) the vocalic allophone of <H>, reconstructed on the basis of
Indo-Iranian, where the root vowel is <i> (an IE <**pater> would have
developed into Sanskrit <**pata:> and not the actual <pita:>)
Using <@2> or <H2> is simply a matter of phoneme-to-grapheme
correspondence.

Best regards,
Adam Hyllested