From: alex
Message: 37806
Date: 2005-05-11
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>what did happen in the Satem languages with the "c^" and "g^" in the
> wrote:
>>
>> Well the RUKI change affected all of the Satem group, not
>> just Indo-Aryan.
>
> You know it just occurred to me that I forgot at least one
> other process besides RUKI that led to retroflexes in Indo-
> Aryan: The clusters *c^t, *j^d, and *j^dh became in Satem
> *s^t, *z^d, and *z^dh respectively, thereby merging with,
> and thereafter undergoing all of the same changes as, the
> clusters arising from *st, *zd, and *zdh after RUKI.
>
> David