Re: Morimarusa

At 6:08:25 PM on Friday, February 5, 2010, stlatos wrote:

[...]

> I showed five changes; one of which ( r > ar ) is known to
> all, and one of which ( t. > s. ) is needed to change *
> mr.twos > * mar.s.wos > * mar.wos in most types of Celtic

Strictly speaking, it isn't needed: Celtic need only have
remodelled *mr.to- on *gWihwos 'alive'.

[...]

> Also, how extensive are these "mere orthographic
> variations" supposed to be? For Belatucadros \
> Balatucadrus \ Blatucadrus \ Balatocadrus \ Belatucairus \
> Balatucairus \ Blatucairus \ Belleticaurus \ Baliticaurus
> \ Balaticaurus \ Belatugagus in Britain, how does -d- vary
> with -i-?

Possibly in the same way that Lat. <cathedra> became OW
<cateir> by vocalization of the /d/ before /r/.

Brian