[tied] Re: House and City

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:44:14 -0000, tgpedersen@... wrote:


> Indeed, a lot of the Niger-Congo words for "three" seem to go back

to

> something like *tar-.

But many of them show tatV-, tatsV- or tadV- instead, which suggests
that the -r- may be due to the intervocalic tapping of an alveolar
stop. I suppose we shoud ask a Niger-Congoist's opinion.

Piotr