`cognate'

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Adam and IEists:

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Hyllested <adahyl at cphling.dk>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 11:44 AM

Adam wrote:

> 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.

Pat comments:

A few of you may be interested in reading the short essay:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/comparison-AFRASIAN-3_schwa.htm

Pat

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