Re: Re[2]: [tied] PIE *a -- a preliminary checklist

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 53043
Date: 2008-02-14

From: Rick McCallister
What peaks my curiosity is why words with glottal stop
in Scandinavian were borrowed into pre-Finnish with /k/
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Like in which word ?
I would more readily suspect a velar voiced spirant
in that case.
Arnaud
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Did Germanic glottal stop come from something else? Or
is it normal for glottal stop to be perceived as /k/
by people whose language lacks glottal stop?
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If you don't have glottal stop in your language
you don't even *hear* it's there
Cf. French renditions of Arabic words.
fi s-sa?a > fissa
Arnaud
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