Re: [tied] Re: Latin pinso etc.

----- Original Message -----
From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 1:28 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Latin pinso etc.



> That is that. How can one show there was no "s^" in that time in
> BecomingAlbanian but there has been an "z^" ?

There wasn't!! *s and *z became respectively *s^ and *z^ much later. The
gaps they left in the phonological system of Old Albanian were filled by
older *c^ and *3^, which have become Modern Albanian /s/ and /z/.

Piotr