[tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 1:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"
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> Take *pors'as "pig" (Finn. porsas). The PIE form was *pork^os, the

Proto-Satem form *pors'os, the Proto-Indo-Iranian form *pars'as
(attested in Saka and Kurdish). The Finnic form fits none exactly.

>
> A minor thing. The Proto-Satem (and proto-Indo-Iranian) reflex of

*k^ must have been something like *[c] or *[ts'] (palatal stop >
affricate, the latter preserved in Nuristani). Note FU *porc'as ~
*pors'as, and Finnish -deksan/-deksän < *teksa, which Koivulehto
interprets as early Proto-Iranian (something like *dätsa, with *ts >
*ks).

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> Piotr

*ts > *ks ? Do I see a finger on the weight here?

Torsten