Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ātr-/reply (7)

The difficulty is that *HeHtr- (we use H for unknown laryngeals on Wiktionary; see WT:AINE) does not explain the occurrence of -a- in the modern languages. Slavic *a reflects an earlier Balto-Slavic *ā or *ō (and *jē, but that's not relevant here). So what we can say for sure is that the laryngeals were not both h1. I can't say anything for Albanian, and I don't know if the Romanian word is a Slavic loan or a Latin inheritance.