Re: [tied] Methodology

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 10720
Date: 2001-10-29

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 03:26:48, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:

>2) It is understood that IE *t becomes Armenian /h/ or NULL...

By whom? The normal development of */t/ is /t`-/, /-y-/ ~ /-w-/.

> that is, except in final position (or so we must presume
> for the purposes of your blind theorizing) where we apparently
> find /-d/ as in /leard/ < *yekWrt.

In Arm. */rt/ > /rd/, and */rd/ > /rt/ (/rd/ can also result from
*/rdh/ and */dhr/, while */dr/ > /rt/, and */tr-/ > /er-/).