On Wed, 11 May 2005 08:22:36 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
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gpiotr@...> wrote:
>david_russell_watson wrote:
>
>> Well the RUKI change affected all of the Satem group, not
>> just Indo-Aryan.
>
>There's no evidence for RUKI in Albanian or Armenian, so it actually
>affected Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian.
In Armenian, rs gives <r.> or <rs^>: <t`ar.amim> ~
<t`ars^amim> "I wither". Olsen has shown that *-is and *-us
in final position (when there was no early loss of the
vowel) give -r (presumably -(i/u)s^ > -z^ > -r). *k^s gives
<c`> in the numeral "6", which doesn't reveal much (but the
Kartvelian forms seem to point to a pre-Armenian form
*us^weks^).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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