Re: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "G&P" <G.and.P@...> wrote:

>
> > It is noteworthy
> >that Xenophon has <thalatta> ktl. but also <Kilissa> and

<Phoenissa>;

> >these feminine ethnonyms reflect *ky .
>
> I thought the -issa ending was non-Greek, borrowed from some other

language.

> If so, how do we know it is < *ky-? Or has its origin been rethought

in the

> last thirty years while my back was turned?

The corresponding m. forms are <Kilikes> and <Phoinikes>. The f. forms
in this case were not produced by appending -issa, but -ia to the stem.

DGK