Re: Latin merx

From: Tavi
Message: 66216
Date: 2010-06-20

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

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> No reason to - see http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/29858 et seq. for a discussion of the suffix -tlo/-thlo or -tlo/-dHlo and its conditionally rhotacised version. For Latin, so far as I am aware, the rhotacisation could be PIE or Latin - recall the conditioned alternant -a:ris of -a:lis.
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It seems this *tl ~ *tHl ~ *dhl cluster was actually some kind of lateral consonant in PIE, whose result could be either /l/ or /r/, depending on conditions.