Re: [tied] Re: cardinal points

tgpedersen wrote:

>> wake up Glen. I don't have any question about Romance.Since you are
> one
>> of the experts maybe you can explain in the alternation "vi/ghi"
>> (Thorsten'S shibolleth) which one should be the ancient one. "ghi"
> or
>> "vi"?. That would be more appropiate to your sphere of interests
>
> That sounds like an interesting theory. Who is this Thorsten guy?
>
> Torsten

mmm, wasn't here a discussion which such syllabic alternation which was
called by you "shibolleth"?
I remembered about the alternance /vi/ or /bi/ with /g'i/ and of /pi/
with /ki/
The most "extreme" to say so is the alternation of "vi" with "zi" with
the intermediate form "g'i" ( vi=g'i=zi)