Re: [tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

At 7:39:02 AM on Wednesday, May 30, 2007, tgpedersen wrote:

> Germanic spirantizes stops before stops: haft-s
> Sabellic does too: scriftas, screihtas
> Old Irish does too: recht
> Iranian does too: bust,
> and it does more: fs^umans, fDroi

> Latin doesn't: scriptum
> Sanskrit doesn't: buddh-

> Germanic is irregular here: it should be -fT-, not -ft-.
> Why?

What's irregular about it?

Brian