Re: [tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 28523
Date: 2003-12-16

16-12-03 06:03, alex wrote:

> Do you intend to say that unstressed "e" or "i" determined the
> palatalisation of "n" ?

A front vowel or glide in an unstressed syllable palatalised the
preceding consonant, and a palatal off-glide developed by assimilation
after the vowel of the preceding syllable.

Piotr