Re: [tied] Re: House and City

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:44:24 -0000, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>--- 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.

You're right. *tat- is what I had intended to type.

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