From: etherman23
Message: 26105
Date: 2003-09-27
> The Iranian words in Armenian certainly could not, for that wouldWhy couldn't this be explained by a long period of contact between
> make the borrowing older than the separation of Indic and Iranian
> which both have /d/ from traditional /d/ (your /t/). It would be an
> incredible coincidence that such old words found their way
> precisely into Armenian, the same language which also received the
> influx of loanwords of specifically Iranian shape.