Re: [tied] Helios

On 2006-08-27 20:43, Sean Whalen wrote:

> In Welsh *sw>xw; In Avestan *sw>xw>xW; in Armenian
> *sw>xw>kHw>kH. It makes more sense to say s>x first
> (also needed for other environments) instead of s>h
> and h>x independently before w (and other positions in
> Avestan and Ossetian) in all.

What's your evidence for *x in "other environments"? Before /w/ and /j/
the assimilation of the /h/ to the glide is a trivial development, cf.
Eng. /hw/ (in those accents that have it) and /hj/, often realised as
[xW] and [ç(j)].

Piotr