Re: Retroflex Consonants in P.I.E.

From: david_russell_watson
Message: 37795
Date: 2005-05-11

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
wrote:
>
> Well the RUKI change affected all of the Satem group, not
> just Indo-Aryan.

You know it just occurred to me that I forgot at least one
other process besides RUKI that led to retroflexes in Indo-
Aryan: The clusters *c^t, *j^d, and *j^dh became in Satem
*s^t, *z^d, and *z^dh respectively, thereby merging with,
and thereafter undergoing all of the same changes as, the
clusters arising from *st, *zd, and *zdh after RUKI.

David