Re: "As"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>
> Knowing nothing about Georgian, I put myself out on
> the thinnest of limbs --Armenian, I believe, has /ow/
> > /ov/. Is it possible that this was shared with
> Georgian as an areal feature?
> If so, then /an/ > /o:/ > /ow/ > /ov/ --admitedly a
> giant IF

Cf. the Sogdian 'ws; since the script is derived from Aramaic, it must
be consonants-only, which means vowels should be filled in; assuming
for no particular reason that the ' is a kind of h3, we get *'ows > *ows.


Torsten