Re: [tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19039
Date: 2003-02-22

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Subject: [tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"


> *ts > *ks ? Do I see a finger on the weight here?

I should have written Iranian *ts --> FU *ks (substitution, not change). *ks was apparently a regular Finnic substitute for the Iranian affricate during that period.

Piotr