Thread:User talk:CodeCat/h₁reudʰ- or h₁rewdʰ-?/reply (7)

The closest guess I can make is something like (or  which is equivalent in IPA). That is just an IPA representation of the phonemes, assuming that *h₁ is /h/. If you follow the Glottalic theory then the last sound will be instead.

As for actual phonetic realisation, it's hard to tell. The initial *h₁r- would probably have been something like, with a voiceless trill like in Icelandic. Or alternatively, an epenthetic vowel might have been inserted, giving. That last case probably reflects the immediate ancestor of Greek and Armenian, where word-initial laryngeals became vowels, so maybe this was a dialectal difference.

PIE also had a tonal accent, but this is a root and not a fully formed word so it can't really be given an accent. The accented syllable probably was pronounced with a higher pitch than other syllables, while like in Ancient Greek. The tone of long accented vowels isn't clear. In the Balto-Slavic languages, original PIE long vowels had a falling tone, but in Ancient Greek they had a rising tone.