From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 45892
Date: 2006-08-29
On 2006-08-28 04:53, Sean Whalen wrote:
> ... The change x>h not
> h>x is better at explaining the distribution.
All this is taking us nowhere. The original question in this sub-thread
was whether the nasalisation in GAv. xV&:Ng was just an inner Avestan
curiosity or a genuine reflex of inherited *n. You have already admitted
that the nasal is old enough for the PIr. reconstruction *hvanh (in
standard notation, whatever the phonetic details) to be valid. At this
point I should have rested my case, since what Joao wanted to know was
whether any other branch apart from Germanic shows an n-variant of the
'sun' stem. Whether this partilcular *n is older than
Proto-(Indo- )Iranian is another question, but Iranian it certainly is.
Piotr
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