The outcome of PIE *#Hi- and *#Hu- in Germanic

Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen

doi:10.1515/if-2015-0004

The outcome of PIE **#Hi-* and **#Hu-* in Germanic

Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard Hansen

Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

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It has been established with a great amount of certainty that PIE ∗#Hu- > Gr. #V- and that PIE ∗#Hi- > Gr. #-. It still remains to be demonstrated what happens in other Western Indo-European branches, including Germanic. In this article,1 I reject the statement by Ringe (1988: 433) that PIE ∗#Hu- becomes PG ∗#uand propose the possibility of differentiated outcomes dependent on the timbre of the PIE laryngeal, viz. that PIE ∗#h₁i- > PG ∗#i- and PIE ∗#h₁u- > PG ∗#u- as assumed by most scholars, but that PIE ∗#h₂i- and PIE ∗#h₂u- might yield PG ∗#ai- and PG ∗#au-, respectively. Furthermore, I tentatively propose that PG ∗#au- > PG ∗#uwhen followed by a labial consonant; a development partially paralleled in Greek and in English.

Translated title of the contribution	Udviklingen af ie. #Hi- og #Hu- i germansk
Original language	English
Journal	Indogermanische Forschungen
Volume	120
Pages (from-to)	31-76
ISSN	0019-7262
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2015-0004
Publication status	Published - 16 Oct 2015

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
Indo-European
Germanic
phonology
laryngeals
diphthongs
vowel prothesis

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