Re: [tied] Re: 'Intrusive' phonemes in languages

At 4:28:23 AM on Tuesday, September 13, 2005, squilluncus
wrote:

> For instance take the initial flexion of 'head' in Irish:

> a ceann "her head" (c = k),
> a cheann "his head" (ch = ty. ch),
> a gceann "their head" (ge = g)

> depending on the fact that the possessive pronoun a once
> ended in 1) a vowel, 2) -s, 3) -m (-n).

I believe that you've reversed (1) and (2). In OIr <a>
'her' was geminating, presumably from a form in <-s>, while
<a> 'his, its' was leniting, implying a final vowel.

Brian