Re: [tied] PIE Stop System

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 25799
Date: 2003-09-13

13-09-03 14:59, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen wrote:

>
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, etherman23 wrote:

>> The Traditional unvoiced
>> stops often become either unvoiced aspirates or fricatives in
>> daughter languages which makes the reinterpretation plausable. The
>> Tradition voiced stops become unvoiced in Germanic and Armenian, as
>> well as some minor languages. This reinterpretation then would have
>> these languages as relic areas.
>
> This is at variance with d > t in the earliest of the Iranian loanwords in
> Armenian.

The same argument works for Germanic (early Celtic and eastern loans in
Germanic show b, d, g > p, t, k).

Piotr