Re: [tied] stop->fricative change

On Sun, 01 Sep 2002 04:45:33 -0000, "apiquinamir" <apiquinamir@...> wrote:

>I noticed that the Latin words pluvia and flumen come from the same
>PIE root

They don't. Pluvia is from PIE *pleu-, and flumen is from PIE *bhleu-, two
different roots.

>and I am wondering if there are similar occurrences in other
>languages (with a stop sometimes changing to a fricative and other
>times not) and if there is some sort of underlying rule that governs
>this.

Yes, there are other cases of roots which are similar in meaning, but differ in
consonant quality (mainly *T ~ *DH ~ *D, etc., but also for instance *l ~ *r).
There are underlying rules that govern this, but they haven't been discovered
yet.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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