IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[Richard M. Alderson III]

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.

								Rich Alderson