From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19094
Date: 2003-02-23
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From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 3:16 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] PIE *ts ?
> And khth- the normal development of *dzg^h in Greek? I don't think so.
Why not? /kt/ ~ /ks/ ~ /sk/ ~ /k/ from reduced or metathesised clusters vary dialectally in some Greek roots, and so do /pHtH/ and /ps/ (pHtHisis ~ psisis , pHtHino: ~ psino:). Note also <kHtHes> (Skt. hyah.), where <kHtH-> evidently developed out of *kHj- < *g^Hj- via fortition involving some sort of affricate (*kHj- > *kHts'- > *kHtH-, cf. *pj- > *pts'- > pt-).
Assuming that *dzg^H either lost the first element of the cluster or underwent metathesis, we should expect to find the following variants:
*dzg^H- > *g^H- > kH-, as in <kHamai>
*dzg^H- > *kHts- (= *kHts'-?) > kHtH- (~ ks-?), as in <kHtHo:n>
Like <ps-> in <psino:> (which is basically Cretan), <ks-> would have been a rare regional variant, and the chances of its being documented would not have been very high.
Piotr