from Yuri Shevelov’s Prehistory of Slavic (1964)

  • Lvxferre [he/him]M
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    10 days ago

    Ten laryngeals??? Holy fuck.

    There are some who claim that *h₁ is actually two different sounds ( [ʔ] and [h] ), and some that claim Albanian preserved some laryngeal as [h] in words like *hₓórǵʰis → *hₓórǵʰyeh₂ → herdhe “testicle” (note: this word is typically reconstructed with *h₁). So that’s two. But where is Shevelov getting the other five from?