Re: Finnish KASKI

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
(The next 4 lines have been added to keep it clear who wrote what.)

> Brian Scott wrote:
>> Patrick Ryan wrote:
>> > Brian Scott wrote:
>> >> Patric Ryan wrote:

>> >>> PIE *t should be Egyptian <s>??????

>> >>> Show me that pair of regular correspondences in any two
>> >>> languages in the world.

>> >> OE <etan>, English <eat>, OHG <e33an>, NHG <essen>;
>> >> <læ:tan>, <let>, <la:33an>, <lassen>; <hwæt>, <what>,
>> >> <hwa3>, <was>; etc.

>> > Brian, it is not *t > *s but *s > *t.

>> You asked for a regular correspondence, not for a sound
>> change, and that's what I gave you.

> It should have been obvious (though evidently not to you) that what
> I was disputing is whether any Nostratic phoneme could produce
> PIE *t and HEgy <s> (also PAA *s).

And such correspondences is what we gave you. As for unconditional s

> t, that can arise from s > þ and þ > t, both of which are well

attested changes.

Richard.