Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:03:00 +0000, Anthony Appleyard
<a.appleyard@...> wrote:

>--- Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> Only thing that worries me is why the Skt. causative is janáyati
>> and not *ja:náyati. Shouldn't the laryngeal have been deleted in
>> *gOnh1-éy-e/o-?
>
>Analogical levelling sometimes messes thing up even in Sanskrit.
>
>P.S. Among you, in the name "Vedic", how many of you say "Veedic",
>and how many pronounce the "e" Sanskrit fashion as in "vague"?

I would say /veIdIk/. However, as the vast majority of my spoken
communication is with non-Anglophones, and with normal people, not
historical linguists, I'm not sure if I ever have.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...