Re: Optional Soundlaws (was: IE *aidh- > *aus-tr- 'hot, warm (wind)'

> >> In sum, no evidence for optional soundlaws in these
> >> words, just the usual complications which interfere with
> >> orderly Neogrammarian phonetic change in real languages.
>
> > Aren't back formations and analogy optional sound-laws?
>
> Not really: they're not law-like.
>
> Brian

In a sense they are, but they're *morphological* laws, not sound laws.

John Vertical