Re: Bear (Was: HORSA vs. EXWA)

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 70753
Date: 2013-01-21

Supposing we had "Kurganic" bears in English instead of regular old bears and bruins, would it be something like **arth or **archt or **arght????

--- On Mon, 1/21/13, Brian M. Scott <bm.brian@...> wrote:

From: Brian M. Scott <bm.brian@...>
Subject: Re: [tied] Bear (Was: HORSA vs. EXWA)
To: "Richard Wordingham" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, January 21, 2013, 6:26 PM

 

At 2:41:11 PM on Monday, January 21, 2013, Richard
Wordingham wrote:

[...]

> Does -rkt- survive well in Celtic. If not, -rtk- > -rkt-
> > -rt- looks a pretty reasonable progression.

Matasović:

The development of the syllabic resonant *r > ar before a
stop is probably to be explained by assuming that *tk'
first changed to PCelt. *xt, and that *x behaved like *s
when the syllabic resonant developed vocalis prothesis.
Thus we had *h2rtk'os > *(H)rxtos > *arxtos > *artos.
Another, less probable explanation would involve positing
a special rule *h2rC > *arC before CRC > CriC

Brian