Re: Latin ibex akin to Portuguese bezerro?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

> In my
> dialect, the normal realisation of the Polish nasal vowels is
> diphthongal with increasing nasality, i.e. with a moderately

nasalised

> vowel as the starting point, followed by a fully nasal glide. The

latter

> is phonetically a nasalised labial-velar approximant [w~] (or,
> optionally, palatal [j~] before palatal fricatives). Similar
> realisations are common cross-linguistically (ask Joao). They

easily

> turn into Vi/Vu-type diphthongs under... er... rhinopathological

conditions.

Believe it or not, but you've just explained the otherwise
mysteriuous t/d vacillation in Baltic (Lith. nãmas, debesy~s,
devynì). What about publishing a short note, say, in _Baltistica_?

Sergei