Re: Optional Soundlaws (was: IE *aidh- > *aus-tr- 'hot, warm (wind)'

At 9:24:50 AM on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, Etherman23
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57"
> <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

>> In sum, no evidence for optional soundlaws in these
>> words, just the usual complications which interfere with
>> orderly Neogrammarian phonetic change in real languages.

> Aren't back formations and analogy optional sound-laws?

Not really: they're not law-like.

Brian