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

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The outcome of PIE *#Hi- and *#Hu- in Germanic. / Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard.

In: Indogermanische Forschungen, Vol. 120, 2015, p. 31-76.

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Hansen, BSS 2015, 'The outcome of PIE *#Hi- and *#Hu- in Germanic', Indogermanische Forschungen, vol. 120, pp. 31-76. https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2015-0004

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Hansen, B. S. S. (2015). The outcome of PIE *#Hi- and *#Hu- in Germanic. Indogermanische Forschungen, 120, 31-76. https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2015-0004

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Hansen BSS. The outcome of PIE *#Hi- and *#Hu- in Germanic. Indogermanische Forschungen. 2015;120:31-76. https://doi.org/10.1515/if-2015-0004

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Hansen, Bjarne Simmelkjær Sandgaard. / The outcome of PIE *#Hi- and *#Hu- in Germanic. In: Indogermanische Forschungen. 2015 ; Vol. 120. pp. 31-76.

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title = "The outcome of PIE *#Hi- and *#Hu- in Germanic",
abstract = "It has been established with a great amount of certainty that PIE *#Hu- > Gr. #Vὐ- and that PIE *#Hi- > Gr. #ἰ-. It still remains to be demonstrated what happens in other Western Indo-European branches, including Germanic. In this article , I reject the statement by Ringe (1988: 433) that PIE *#Hu- > PG *#u-? and 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 *#u- when followed by a labial consonant; a development partially paralleled in Greek and in English.",
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