Re: [tied] PIE *aussiio-

From: alex_lycos
Message: 19031
Date: 2003-02-22

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> It seems that not just latin rothacised an intervocalic "s" but
>> germanic too. If so, which is the explanation for this rothacism of
>> the "s" in Latin and Germanic?
>
> s > z > r
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...


thank you Miguel. So the sonorisation of the "s" first for giving an "z"
and after this an "r".
Is this change just intervocalic or can it happen that an initialy "s"
will become too an "z"?