From: george knysh
Message: 16011
Date: 2002-10-07
>*****GK: So the Scythians were "dog(s)" to Darius?
> Not from <spaka-> (as in Median) but from its Old
> Persian counterpart *saka- (in Old Persian
> Proto-Iranian *cv shanged into /s/ as opposed to
> median or Avestan /sp/).
> neither satem nor centum. The satem change took*****GK: What would be the temporal parameters for
> place millennia ago, and <k�pek> can't have ebeen
> borrowed that early; I don't even think its
> reconstructible to Proto-Turkic. The only imaginable
> reason for the substitution k -> s in <sobaka> (if
> it derives from <k�b�k> with front vowels) would be
> that given by Trubachev (the second palatalisation
> *k > *c plus an ad hoc simplification of *c > s),
> which has nothing to do with the satem change.