Re: Ruki law

From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60833
Date: 2008-10-12

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Ruki law


>
> On 2008-10-11 15:51, afyangh wrote:
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>> As regards the Ruki law *s > s^ in Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian when
>> s is preceded by any of r u k i,
>>
>> Do we have cases like r u k i + T/D + s ? Does the phonotactical
>> "affricate" ts become s^ ? or does it remain -s- ? In other words, is
>> there a different development when some intermediary dental stop was
>> there ?
>
> Yes, RUKI was blocked by an intervening stop. Medial *-Ts- was possible
> only if there was a morphological boundary between the consonants, and
> in suffixes beginning with *s there is no shift to *s^ after *-iT-,
> *-uT- or *-r(.)T- (I can't think of any examples involving *-KT-s-).
>
> Clear examples are provided e.g. by such Sanskrit forms as sigmatic
> aorists, desideratives and futures, locatives in <-su> and the like:
> <abHutsi, bubHutsati, bHotsyati> from *bHeudH-, <vartsyati> from *wert-,
> <hr.tsu, trivr.tsu> from *k^erd- 'heart' and *tri-wr.t- 'threefold'.
>
> Piotr
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Thank you, M. Gasiorowski,

That's the kind of things I was expecting.

Arnaud

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