Re: [tied] Stative/Perfect; Indo-European /r/

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 36562
Date: 2005-03-02

On 05-03-02 09:02, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> Even the peculiar affrication of initial tr- is not unique
> to English. The country of Chile was named after the
> Araucanian (Mapundungu) word Trile. In Chilean Spanish, tr-
> is affricated as in English (perhaps an effect of the
> Araucanian substrate)...

And cf. *tr > Iranian *þr > Old Persian ç (eventually > s)

Piotr