From: tgpedersen
Message: 50405
Date: 2007-10-21
>It has to be /an/, nothing else gives Russian /ya/.
> 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