Re: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes

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.

Brian