Re[2]: [tied] Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes

At 10:50:13 PM on Saturday, April 19, 2008, david_russell_watson wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> wrote:

>> I have previously stated that Aikio's pre-north-Saami
>> substrate was Baltic. According to his data,

>> sieðgavaššu (AA) siedhga-vas^s^u

Try UTF-8; it turns the first of these into <sieðgavas^s^u>,
which matches Arnaud's <siedhga-vas^s^u>, ...

>> "willow-thicket" ; "bosquet de saules" < pre-S
>> *selika:-widsu
>> => Pok 879 *â??s°likâ. Cf. English sallow.
>> => Pok 1177 *â??widhu. Cf. English wood.

... and it turns these to *vsºlikâ and *vwidhu, in each of
which the initial 'v' is probably an artifact of imperfect
translation of encodings.

>> Apparently, Ruki operated before Satem,
>> at least in the north-Baltic substrate of Saami.
>> This word is Ruki but not Satem.

> Which encoding do I use to view these words properly?

Brian