Re: Verner's Law for *-ns-á > *-nz-á

From: dgkilday57
Message: 71700
Date: 2014-03-16




---In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, <josimo70@...> wrote :

Is there any example of Verner's Law shifting -ns->-nZ- ?

JS Lopes

Possibly Swiss German _gann(er)_ 'diving bird', if it is correctly referred to Gmc. *ganzá-, a thematization of the PIE consonant-stem for 'goose' identical to Skt. _ham.sás_ 'gander; male swan'; cf. Pokorny, IEW 412.

DGK