From: Brian M. Scott Message: 63364 Date: 2009-02-22
At 8:40:55 PM on Saturday, February 21, 2009, Andrew
Jarrette wrote:
> I've never understood why *tst should become /ss/ (in Gmc,
> Latin), [...]
It seems pretty straightforward: a likely route would be
[tst] > [ts(:)] > [s:]. Both steps essentially just relax
a closure, so I see it as a kind of lenition.