05-01-04 08:49, wtsdv wrote:
> Did the RUKI change take place after *l? If so, does that
> mean that *l was probably alveolar?
Not in Balto-Slavic. I was asking myself the same question as regards
Indo-Iranian. RUKI doesn't seem to be restricted to the position after
/r/ < PIE *r at least in Old Indic (I can't think of uncontroversial
reflexes of *-ls- in Iranian at the moment), but then Old Indic /r/ had
a strong assimilatory effect on *n as well (causing its retraction even
at a distance), so generalised RUKI after _any_ *r may be a special
secondary development.
Piotr