From: stlatos
Message: 59478
Date: 2008-07-05
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:What is unrealistic about n > N after K? It's the simplest possible
> > If you're questioning how two apparently Iranian languages could
> > have different reflexes of *triitewxnos based on metathesis, since
> > at least ri > ir and i-a > a-i happened once, the movement of Na
> > in one group and not another is no stranger.
> No, the metathesis is the least of the problem. It's the total
> set of unconvincing and unrealistic sound changes you posit in
> order to force cognacy on the two names which is the problem,
> and which taking 'Thraetaona' from *tri-taw- instead of *trayt-
> awna- doesn't really help to fix.