Re: The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

I'm not sure whether the message went through or not on Semitic. I don't
think that it did... Here goes again:

Miguel, you mentioned that "six" in Semitic is reconstructed as *s^idt_u
even though iyho it should be *sidc^u. Can you explain further why *c^ is
preferred over *t_, or for that matter *s^? Is the medial cluster certain
at all given the evidence? Just a thought, could one get away with a
reconstruction like *s^iXs^u whereby X is a voiced fricative like ayin or
perhaps *G?


= gLeN