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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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
1993-12-01
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Series: | Linguistica |
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Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/4309 |