Re: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes

--- On Mon, 2/23/09, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 4:29 PM
> 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
>

To be a pest:
Where does Slavic /s^c^/ (et al.) come from?
Does it have several origins, depending on placement? e.g. does Polish initial szcz- come from German /s^t/ as in Stettin ~ Szczecin?