IE "Urheimat" and evidence from Uralic linguistics

[petegray]

> 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.

I believe the argument is that analogy has so profoundly affected reflexes
of laryngeals in Greek, including prothetic vowels, that the single evidence
of Greek alone is insufficient to establish the nature of the laryngeal.  I
have read somewhere (sloppy idiot that I am, I forget where) the argument
that the nature of the initial vowel in onoma is determined by the
medial -o-.

This only means that Rich's *must* might perhaps be softened to *can be
counted as, given the lack of any evidence to the contrary*.

Peter