From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 55918 Date: 2008-03-25
On 2008-03-25 17:02, fournet.arnaud wrote:
> Does this mean other H "break" ?
>
> I understood none breaks in indo-iranian.
That's right. The Francis/Normier "breaking" is clearly visible in
Greek, Tocharian and Armenian. Miguel has made a good case for a similar
albeit subtler effect in Balto-Slavic. It's caused everywhere by *h2 and
*h3, but not *h1 (which simply lengthens a preceding *i or *u).
Piotr
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