Couvreur Walter. De Hettitische h

Leuven: Katholieke universiteit te Leuven / Université catholique de Louvain, 1935. — 43 p. — (Philologische studiën. Teksten en verhandelingen; nr. 12).Couvreur assumes three laryngeal consonants for primitive Indo-European,' (= glottal stop), h (= laryngeal voiceless spirant), and γ (= laryngeal voiced spirant). The theory is, briefly, that ' had no effect upon the quality of a neighboring vowel, but h changed an original e to a, and γ changed an original e to o. All three consonants were lost in the Indo-European languages, with compensatory lengthening of a preceding vowel in case a consonant had followed the laryngeal. In Hittite, however, x appears as h (written hh between vowels), and γ as h (written single even between vowels).