Re: The name of the name

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
wrote:

> Next comes */n/. Hittite l- is likely to be the result of
> dissimilation (*na:man > la:man).

This dissimilation seems to be regular (unless a velar stop
intervenes?), see Joshua Katz's paper from the 17th Annual UCLA IE
Conference. Katz has some beautiful examples including *nah2-ont-
'swimming' > la(h)hanza(n)- 'duck'.

Piotr