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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:> 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.
Among the languages of India, Telugu lexicons have ts as a distinct
consonant.
It also occurs in Sanskrit: utsa (udsa according to Un.a_di
3.36), 'spring'