Re: Re[2]: [tied] Latin -idus as from dH- too

I do not see any Latin <f> in the words we have been discussing...

Or is there another rule to get from <f> to <b>?


Patrick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel Carrasquer Vidal" <miguelc@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [tied] Latin -idus as from dH- too


> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:27:34 -0500, "Patrick Ryan"
> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >I think Olsen is wrong; and I find her proposal that *Ht -> *tH then *th
> >implausible; even further from reality is her idea that *th could be
> >confused or conflated with *dh.
>
> Only in Italic (simplifying: dh/th > þ > f), Greek (dh > th)
> and Slavic (at least in the sequence -thlo- > -d(h)lo-). In
> Sanskrit, Armenian, Germanic *th is /th/ (i.e. th, t`, þ).
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...
>
>