Re: [tied] Re: PIE word for "people"

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 40890
Date: 2005-09-30

Why in Indo-Iranian there are these shifts: l>r, r>r and r>l?
Is there some rule?
Why leghu > laghu-, but reudH-> lohira, and g^Hel-> har-?

 

Joao SL



Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...> escreveu:
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:

> In reconstructing pre-PIE, I have come to believe that there were
two /r/
> phonemes, only one of which produces the [r]/[l] variations we see
in Old
> Indian (Gosh, I wish there were a better word!).

> The variety of /r/ that produces this variation, shows up in PIE as [l].

*reudh 'red' seems to give some Sanskrit words in l-, e.g. _loha_
'red', 'of copper', '(of) iron', 'blood'.

Richard.


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