From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 57697
Date: 2008-04-20
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From: "david_russell_watson" <liberty@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:47 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] [tied] Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound
Changes
As we know, in the course of the evolution of P.I.E.
into Proto-Indo-Iranian the palato-velar stops became
palatal or pre-palatal affricates, which subsequently
developed fricative allophones before dental stops, so:
k^
g^
g^H
k^t
g^d
g^dH
became
c´
j´
j´H
c´t = [s´]t
j´d = [z´]d
j´dH = [z´]dH
In another change /s/ and its allophone [z] develop
palatal or pre-palatal allophones after /r/, /w/, /k/,
or /y/, RUKI, with the resulting allophones merging
completely at some point with the fricative allophones
of the affricates, if not identical to them from the
start.
Is it known, or is there any way of knowing, which of
the changes came first?
David
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I have previously stated that Aikio's pre-north-Saami substrate was Baltic.
According to his data,
sieðgavaššu (AA) siedhga-vas^s^u
"willow-thicket" ; "bosquet de saules" < pre-S *selika:-widsu
=> Pok 879 *√s°likâ. Cf. English sallow.
=> Pok 1177 *√widhu. Cf. English wood.
Apparently, Ruki operated before Satem,
at least in the north-Baltic substrate of Saami.
This word is Ruki but not Satem.
Arnaud
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