Re: [tied] Centum in Vedic?

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From: Dean_Anderson
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Centum in Vedic?


>> ... It's a relatively common type of lenition, like the Iranian, Prakrit,
Greek, Welsh, dialectal Spanish, ... (etc.) lenition of [s] > [h] in some
positions.

> Which Prakrits have this sound? It just doesn't seem to strike me as an
Indian sound (it sounds right for the other languages you mention though)
whereas the 'kh' sound is very Indian.

I'm talking about [s] > [h] (as a parallel example of sibilant lenition),
not [s.] > [x]. In a number of Indo-Aryan langauges (beginning with some
Prakrits) intervocalic [s] (from merged *s and *s') was weakened to [h], as
in Hindi gya:raha < eka-das'a, Marathi d&ha < das'a, Sinhalese dahaya <
das'a-ka-, etc.

Piotr