Re: [tied] Re: Indo-Iranian

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 23246
Date: 2003-06-14

14-06-03 16:48 Alexander Stolbov wrote:
May I reformulate the question?
Are there innovations shared by all Prakrits and all Dardic languages but absent in Mitanni Indo-Aryan?
Yes. The monophthongisation of /ai, au/ > /e:, o:/ (Mitanni IA aika- 'one', Skt. eka-, Kalasha ek-, etc.), the change of *-azdH- > *-aidH- > -edH- (but Mitanni IA -ma-as^-da *[mazdHa]), and of *g^H > *dz'H >  h in Sanskrit, the Prakrits and the Dardic languages alike (Mitanni IA spelling clearly indicates a still coronal consonant, possibly *[z'(H)]; the Nuristani languages preserve it as an affricate /dz/!).

Piotr