Qmbhiseykwos

-***ʔmóm qʷnéqʷmn̥ qm̥bʰiseykʷós ʔésti méqtērkʷe ʔméq ʔroséq ʔésti.

My name is qm̥bʰiseykʷós and my mother is the Volga.

qm̥bʰiseykʷós- if the word abʰiṣekáḥ went back to PIE that's what it would sound like.

In my interpretation of PIE phonology, all the laryngeals are stops- *h1 = ʔ, *h2 = q, *h3 = qʷ (with interconsonantal allophones as fricatives, *Ch̯2C = CχC, *Ch̯3C = CχʷC). This is to best explain vowel-coloring effects and reflexes of all the laryngeals as glottal stops in early metrically-reconstructed Indo-Iranian, the aspirating effect of *kh2 [kχ] > kʰ, *th2 [tχ] > tʰ, and the Anatolian data in a Kloekhorst 2018 paper.

The oldest Indo-Iranian texts call the Volga by reflexes of *ʔroséq (the PIE for "dew"), raŋha in Avestan, *rhā in Scythian, rásā in the Rigveda. There are only reflexes throghout Indo-Iranian, no other branches of Indo-European have reflexes of *ʔroséq as a hydronym, but it is possible that the Proto-Indo-European name for the Volga was *ʔroséq.

Research interests: Long-range comparison, Nostratic morphology, Nostratic migrations, Dené-Caucasian hypothesis, Zagrosian (Elamo-Dravidian) studies, Proto-Indo-European phonology, potential Caucasian substrata in IE.