[tied] Re: Scythians, Zoroastrians, etc.

--- In cybalist@..., Andrei Markine <andrey@...> wrote:

> At 3/1/2002 11:48 PM +0100, Piotr wrote:
> >
> > No, they hesitated between the _letters_ zeta (which
> > originally stood for [zd] rather than [z])
>
> Was it [zd] or [dz]?

I've been wondering about this also. My Greek Grammar gives
[zd] as the value of zeta, but much of what I read in I.E.
studies seems to imply that it was an affricate and a single
phoneme.

David