1897-1059 The Development of PIE Initial Iota in Greek – Reevaluation of Evidence in Context of Typological Data (Part 2) Nowak Szymon author Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Polska, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków Correspondence to: Szymon Nowak szymontomasznowak@gmail.com 30 09 2019 Volume 136, Issue 3 2019 221 226 Copyright © 2019 2019 <p>In the following paper selected Greek words with initial <em>zd</em>- or <em>h</em>-, which could have developed from Proto-Indo-European initial <em>H</em>i̭ or i̭-, are analyzed. In the first part the position of the Greek language within the Indo-European family, the Laryngeal Theory and the history of research on the development of initial glide (<em>H</em>)i̭<em>-</em>- in Greek are commented on. In the main segment, divided between the two parts of the paper, the criteria of the selection of the Greek words are put forward and the selected thirteen words analyzed in the light of the development of their initial segments. In the second part, the conclusions made on the basis of the analysis are confronted with theories on scenarios of relative chronology of the sound changes. Finally, typological data is adduced to favour one of the possible scenarios of changes.</p> 1 Beekes R.S.P. 2010. Etymological dictionary of Greek. Leiden. 2 Bozzone Ch. 2013. Initial “Yod” in Greek and the etymology of Gk. ἵππος ‘horse’. – Jamison S.W., Melchert C.H., Vine B. (eds.). Proceedings of the 24th annual UCLA Indo-European conference. Bremen: 1–26. 3 Byrd A. 2015. The Indo-European syllable. Leiden, Boston. 4 García Ramón J.L. 1999. Griechisch Ζητήρ· Ζεύς ἑν Κύπρῳ, vedisch yātár- “Rächer” und die Vertretung von *i̭- im Griechischen. – Eichner H., Luschützky H.Ch., Sadovski V. (eds.). Compositiones Indogermanicae in memoriam Jochem Schindler. Praha: 77–96. 5 Hellquist E. 1922. Svensk etymologisk ordbok. Lund. 6 Hock H.H. 1991. Principles of historical linguistics. Berlin. 7 Kümmel M. 2007. Konsonantenwandel. Bausteine einer Typologie des Lautwandels und ihre Konsequenzen für die vergleichende Rekonstruktion. Wiesbaden. 8 LIV = Rix H. 2001. Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben. Wiesbaden. 9 NIL = Wodtko D.S., Irslinger B., Schneider C. 2008. Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon.Heildeberg. 10 Rau J. 2010. Greek and Proto-Indo-European. – Bakker E.J. (ed.). A companion to the Ancient Greek language. Malden: 171–188. 11 Smoczyński W. 2006. Rzut oka na teorię laryngalnych. – Krasnowolska A., Maciuszak K., Mękarska B. (eds.). In the Orient where the gracious light… Satura Orientalis in honorem Andrzej Pisowicz. Kraków: 119–165.