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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:
>
> For more information consult Richard Strand's Chitrali site.
The method used to index Nuristani words on that site is
extremely annoying, and beside that I've yet to find on
any of the pages that I've looked at so far a discussion,
or even mention, of the irregular sound correspondence.
> The important changes for this correspondence are s. > s^ in
> Iranian
What does 's.' represent, surely not a retroflex? There
are no retroflex sounds in Proto-Iranian or any preceding
stages. Retroflexes entered Iranian only later and only
in those dialects under the influence of Indian languages
with those sounds.
> The existence of t.s^ not c^ is confirmed by:
>
> t.s^aLp
> r.s^aLp
> pr.aLs^
>
> Kam pr^âól 'unclarified part of melted butter'
So then it's this pr^â'ol you believe a reflex of *selp-?
Do you suppose there to be any others on Strand's site or
can I stop looking?
The site itself breaks the word up as pr^a-âa-ol, none of
the components of which seems readily derivable from *selp-
or *sarp-.
It would certainly be nice to know what pr^a, âa, and ol
mean in Kamviri, but, since it's impossible to look them
up alphabetically anywhere on Strand's site, I haven't yet
any idea. Âa is cited a few times on some of the pages
as an element of other words, but is left itself undefined.
Neither was I able to find another Kamviri lexicon online.
Would you happen to know of one, Sean, or to know yourself
what pr^a, âa, and ol mean?
As it stands pr^â'ol doesn't seem to have anything to do
with *selp-.
David