Re: [tied] Re: Saxon wanum "bright"

From: Glen Gordon
Message: 29860
Date: 2004-01-21

Abdullah:
>One of prehistoric Albanian sound-law was exactly the reduction of
>the cluster -kt- > -t-: *nokW-t- > nat� 'night',

Maybe so, however the reduction of clusters is such a common event
that it is hardly attributable to any particular language. Why not
French /lait/ while we're at it? This doesn't show anything meaningful.


= gLeN

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