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Pronunciation of ‘hₐ’ in PIE
The transcription *hₐ is a sometimes-seen, idiosyncratic way of writing what is otherwise more or less uniformly written *h₂ when reconstructing Proto-Indo-European. It is known as ‘laryngeal two’, ...
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