Re: Initial 's' in Brittonic - Correction

--- In cybalist@..., "richardwordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
wrote:

> Languages also undergo sporadic sound changes. For example, the
> change of intervocalic dH to Latin b referred to above, in detail

the

> process dH > *θ > *ð > *v > b (or dH > *θ > *f > *v > b -

is ther=

> e
> any evidence to tell between them?), where *v is NOT the sound
> written <v> in Latin, did not always occur. There are instance

where

> the change went dH > *θ > *ð > d, i.e. the change from dental
> fricative to labial fricative was not universal intervocally.

By http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/14530 the Latin
change *ð > *v (v = fricative that became b) was not sporadic but
conditioned.

Richard.