Re: Bactrian camel

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:

> I don't think it was the V that was nasalized. There are
> Indo-Iranian languages that nasalized a velar before a consonant in
> certain positions including:
>
>
> Degano
>
> aks.i > *akks.i^ > *aNks.i^ > *ant.s.i^ > anc^íi 'eye'
>
>
> Achareta
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> r,ks.a- > *irkks.a^ > *irnt.s.a^ > í~t.s. 'bear'
>
>
> Degano
>
> *irnt.s.a^ > *arnt.s.i^ +ak+ik (dim.) > anc^eakíi 'bear'
>
>
> Khowar
>
> *gWixWwos > *gYiNWwà > *j^ùnv > z^ùnu 'alive'

With this in mind I suppose an IE language with K>N / _$C might have
had *gW(e)xYtu+ 'sap, resin' borrowed as:

*gWexYtu+s > *gYeNYt@+r >> Lith genta~ras / ginta~ras 'amber', etc.