Re: The oddness of Gaelic words in p-

From: tgpedersen
Message: 59007
Date: 2008-06-03

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@> wrote:
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> > At 4:53:48 AM on Tuesday, June 3, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
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> > > Otherwise, with a general -TK- > -TT- rule, there would
> > > have been plenty of geminated Latin verbs. There isn't.
>
> > Since there is such a rule, your reasoning must be
> > incorrect.
>
> You were arguing for tk>kk not tk>tt; did you just misread this
> apparent typo?

Should be *-TK- > -KK- of course. You're right.


Torsten