Re: Horses' Asses and the Indo-European Homeland

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 60385
Date: 2008-09-27

> > Are there examples of a phoneme split closer to the one
> > of our original question, in which something like /etHo/,
> > phonetically [e.tHo], would become /etho/, phonetically
> > [et.ho]?
>
> I don't know. I've a feeling that somewhere I've run into
> /V~/ > /Vn/ somewhere, but I can't recall where.
>
> Brian
>

Isn't Polish like this, i.e. <e,> and <a,> are pronounced /En/, /Em/
and /On/, /Om/ etc. before most consonants (plosives at least), where
they originally were nasal vowels? (I think nasal vowels are preserved
before spirants and maybe finally) Of course Piotr is the one to
answer this question.

AJ