Re: [tied] Re: Lambdacism

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 12014
Date: 2002-01-08

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From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Lambdacism


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

Lambdacism is a dialectal or regional phenomenon. For
example, Sogdian and Khotanese, though indubitably NE
Iranian, don't show it. The name Arimaspoi may have been
borrowed from a non-lambdacising dialect. Besides, we do not
know how accuratly it was recorded; the original may have
been something like *arm- or *aram- .

Piotr