RE : [tied] Re: North of the Somme

> That's exactly the pattern we have in
> *amlu-; *malum
> *an,W-; *ma-deo:, Dutch nat, Sw. våt
>
> (and BTW Eng. net, Da. våd "net",
> cf. Russ. nevod "net" with otherwise inexplicable ne-)

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>

> I've been wondering before whether IE (if, as said, it passed
> through some IE language) already had spirantization, since it
> occurs in Iranian, Sabellic and Germanic (and Grimm could have been
> a generalization). -xW-t- would easily fall apart into -ft- and
> -xt- forms, from which the whole paradigm could be back-generalized.
>

That didn't make much sense, Correction:

I've been wondering before whether IE (relevant if, as said, the loans passed through some IE language) already had spirantization of stops before other stops, since it occurs, supposedly independently, in Iranian (but generalized to the position before all consonants), Sabellic and Germanic (and Grimm also could have been a generalization, this time to all positions). -xW-t- of the ppp would easily fall apart into -ft- and -xt- forms, from which the whole paradigm could be back-generalized (with -p- etc and -k- etc respectively). The other language groups would have restored the original un-spirantized stop by paradigm regularization.


Torsten