Re: [tied] Helios

On 2006-08-26 01:22, Sean Whalen wrote:

> Iranian has rules that both change dentals to velars
> and nasalize velars in non-nasal environments. There
> is no reason to assume *n in the paradigm.

Avestan has nasalisation rules like *-asa- > *-aha- > -aNha- and *-asra-

> *-ahra- > *-aNhra- > -aNra-, but the Gath. change of *a > & betrays

an original nasal, not secondary nasalisation (which doesn't occur in
final syllables anyway), sice in the latter case the *a would have
retained its quality. The development is the same as in the acc.pl.
*-o(:)ns > *-anh > Gath. -&:Ng. I know of no other possible source of
the auslaut sequence in <xV&:Ng>.

Piotr