permissible IE roots?

[Sean Crist]

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Daniel Baum wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On a similar subject, would anyone happen to know why there appear to be no
> roots of the form CHH? There are roots with two laryngeals (such as one of
> the words for "to sit", as in Skt aaste), but none with two contiguous.

If it's the case that the laryngeals are some sort of fricatives (which is
as good a guess as any), this isn't too surprising; it's not uncommon for
languages to prohibit sequences of two consecutive fricatives.

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