Indo-european 'laryngeals' and Hittite hinik-, heu-: some critical observations

Referring to 'lex Eichner' 1 certain scholars2 teach that the he- of Hittite heu­ 'rain' (heu-/he-aw-)3 goes back ultimately to the lengthened e-grade (*H-ēy-) of a root *H2ey-, the zero-grade of which is attested by the Hittite nasal infix verb stem hinik­ 'to rain'&l...

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Main Author: Fredrik Otto Lindeman
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 1993-12-01
Series:Linguistica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/4309