From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 27199
Date: 2003-11-14
>14-11-03 17:26, alex wrote:The Armenian word for "20" shows a strange _devoicing_ (not in the same
>
>> when should have happened the methathesis then? after k^> z or before?
>> (I assume you see the "z" there from the "k^")
>
>The regular reflex of *g^w in Albanian is <z> via *dz^ < *dzw (as
>opposed to <dh> or <d> from *g^ alone), so both the metathesis and the
>voicing must be old. I'm not sure what caused the voicing -- the
>material illustrating this change is very scanty -- but since *s is
>reflected as voiced <gj> from older *z^ before a stressed vowel in
>Albanian (as opposed to <sh> in unstressed syllables, cf. shtatë <
>*septm.'-t-a: but gjashtë < *sék^s-t-a:), I think it's just possible
>that intervocalic *k^ produced a voiced reflex before a stressed vowel,
>in which case the sequence of changes would have been:
>
>*wik^- > *w(i)g^- > *wdz- > *dzw- > *dz^- > z-
>
>This is strangely reminiscent of Latin vi:ginti:, with /g/ from *k^.