Re: [tied] Re: Sanskrit Rta... and related terms

Sean Whalen wrote:

> But this is no evidence for dhzh, ghzh, etc., ever
> existing. As Piotr says in the last message in that
> thread: in PIE Ch > C before voiceless obstr.
> word-final (I agree, also syl-final) so the ordering
> of the middle stages could go either way. If ghzh,
> etc., had ever existed I'd expect *ghmas/jhmas as gen.
> of "earth".

I have little doubt that "something like" *gHz^H really existed. Note
such correspondences as Skt. ks.arati 'flows' : Av. Gz^ar- (and
similarly in New East Iranian languages). There are Middle and New
Indo-Aryan forms more conservative than the Sanskrit one! Cf. Prakr.
jHara:i and Bengali jHara:, preserving both the voicing and the aspiration.

Piotr