Re: [tied] Olsen's Law [was: PIE Ploughs]

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:28:37 +0000, elmeras2000 <jer@...> wrote:

>On the following Armenian stuff I need to ask higher up before I
>make a fool of myself. Still, if intervocalic *t is better preserved
>after aw than after other vocalic segments, the same might apply yo
>*dh?

Yes, that would explain why it remained as /d/, instead of going to /z/ or
/r/. The funny thing is that *th (> t`) is also usually well-preserved
after /aw/, so the voicing to *dh (> /d/) is unexpected.

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