On 05-03-30 15:51, Petusek wrote:
> Thank you, Piotr. Could you (anybody), please, possibly list some web
> links, where Pashto historical phonology is dealt with? Thank you in
> advance.
There's a nice article on Pashto phonology (including a wealth of
dialectological info) at
http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/detailedlanguagerecord?ethnocode=PBU
The change isn't dealt with explicitly, but you can easily collect some
examples involving words with good IE etymologies and work them out for
yourself :). Some are quite simple, e.g. <las> 'ten'.
> P.S.: Other posible examples?
Pashto shares this development of *d (from various sources) > l with
Munji, Yidgha and ancient Bactrian, cf. *dHugh2ter- > Ir. *duxtar- >
EIr. *duGdar- > Bactr. logda, Yidg. luGdo, Pash. lur 'daughter'. It's
part of a more general process of voiced obstruent lenition in those
languages, cf. *b > w in Pashto (as in <wro:r> 'brother').
You might also be interested in the regular change of Old Iranian *rz,
*rd > New Persian l, as in <del> 'heart' and <boland> 'high'.
Piotr