Re: [tied] Re: Lambdacism

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> What you're missing is the conditioning environment.
> In Ossetic-type lambdacism, only palatalised /r/
> (followed by /i/ or /j/) changes into /l/. More
> precisely, *ri > li and *rj > l . *arba- or whatever
> underlies "Arpo-"

****GK: I prefer your suggestion of "harpa"
(serpent)****

would not have been affected, as

> opposed to *ripa-. Ossetic has ruxs 'light' <
> *rauxs-, fyr 'much' < *paru-, ruvas 'fox' <
> *raupasa- (by the way, in these examples PIr *r <
> PIE *l), z�rond 'old' < *zarant- (cf. Gk. geront-),
> etc.

*****GK: What then of "arimaspu"?

>
> Piotr
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Alexander Stolbov
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 10:23 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: The Scythian Brothers
>
>
> Is it possible to have simultaneously L(e)ipoxais <
> *ripa-xs^ayah and Arpoxais ?
> If we have lambdacism here we should have Lipoxais
> and *Alpoxais,
> if we don't have lambdacism then we should have
> *Ripoxais and Arpoxais. Right?
> Or I don't understand something here?
>

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