Re[2]: [tied] Re: On the ordering of some PIE rules

At 12:39:59 AM on Wednesday, June 6, 2007, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> 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?

> He noted that the -t doesn't spirantize. [...]

I know. So what? That's not in itself an irregularity.

Brian