Re: [cybalist] Re: Easter

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From: John Croft

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 4:34 AM

Subject: [cybalist] Re: Easter

By the way, is the Ausora-Aurora shift another of the s-r replacement
we found in Tyrsenoi-Tyrrhenoi I wonder.

John

 

it's just ordinary Latin rhotacism (intervocalic *s > *z > r), as in flo:s 'flower', gen. flo:ris, or tempus, pl. tempora (< *tempos, *tempos-a). Aurum 'gold' is likewise from *aus-o-m. Older *-rs- regularly gives Latin -rr-.

 

Piotr