--- Sean Whalen <
stlatos@...> wrote:
>
> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> > There
> > are only reflexes of *xarsta- 'wickerwork, grid'
> and
> > *xursti- 'wood,
> > shrubbery' (OE hyrst derives from the latter).
> They
> > are probably related
> > to each other, in which case they should both be
> > assigned to the root
> > *kert- 'turn, weave', and analysed as *kort-to-
> and
> > *kr.t-ti-.
>
> I think it's more likely that ke>ka, as in
> *k(a)rttis 'bent thing > wicker, brush?'
>
> So, to Latin:
>
> *karttis > *kar_tis> *kra_tis > cra:tis
Of course, if tt>tst in PIE, this dissimilation
couldn't have occurred in Latin. Germanic didn't have
this change, the tt>[]ss was an areal change. It was
a smaller areal change after the larger tt>st and
dd(h)>zd(h). The ev. for zd(h) in the west makes all
tt>st before later changes more likely; st remains in
some positions (and analogy). Since t>s and d>z in
other positions than before an obstruent in various IE
languages, there's no special ev. for PIE ts+t, etc.
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