Re: Indo-European *es-

Muke Tever wrote, of laryngeals:

> [Yes I have a habit of just writing just the number (in small print
> if possible) as *p2ter instead of *pH2ter.]
I was reading Beekes this morning and had a similar thought.  In my
someday conlang family, the protolanguage will have some unidentified
reconstructed phonemes (perhaps "coefficients sonantiques", gone to zero
and inferred from their effect on adjacent sounds) written with digits.
But not /1/ because it looks too much like /i I l/.


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