Re: [tied] Stabilisation of RUKI

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 22:30:42 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>What converted the RUKI sound change (s > s^ after /r/, /u/, /k/
>and /i/) from an allophonic change to a phonemic change? I thought
>it was the merger of PIE -st- after RUKI with PIE -k^t-, but
>examples of the latter seem to be very thin on the ground. I can't
>think of any off-hand.

For Skt., there's nas' "be lost", nas.-t.á-.

The phonologization of /s^/ only came about in the daughter languages, and
may have been caused by different conditions in each of them. *-k^- did
not merge with *s everywhere, and neither did *-k^t- necessarily merge with
*-st- (although it did in Sanskrit, where *k^ does not merge with *s).

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