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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:20 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: "Will the 'real' linguist please stand up?"
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>
> > *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

Apparently? If the issue is whether k was on its way to
satem, 'apparently' is does not quite count as evidence.

Torsten