Re: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes

On 2009-02-23 15:40, G&P wrote:

> In Greek the change /-tt-/ > /-ss-/ is dialectal, and affects all
> words, not just ppp’s. E.g. tettar- / tessar-/ pittar- = 4;
> thalatta / thalassa = sea; and so on. Since the last word is
> probably non-IE, it shows that the change is an active phonological
> change within Greek, independent of what has happened in other IE
> language groups, and not due to something inherited.

The regular Greek development of the inherited morphological geminate
*//t-t// [tst] (also from *//d-t// and *//dH-t//) is <st>, while
*//t-dH// and *//d-dH// yield <stH>.

<-tt-> and <-ss-> are different dialectal reflexes of Proto-Greek *c^c^,
a long affricate that developed from pre-Greek clusters such as *t(H)j,
*k(H)j, *tw.

Piotr