From: Rick McCallister
Message: 70080
Date: 2012-09-21
Even today, ants wreak havoc on an unattended kitchen or pantry. In the millennia before Raid, it is not surprising that 'ant' words should have been subject to relatively frequent tabuistic substitution, leading to the futility of reconstructing regular development. I tried it four years ago, and it required ridiculously many additional assumptions, so it was hardly better than your own approach of a soundlaw for every word.> So what regular sound law occurred for m>f-N in:
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> formi:ca L; bórma:x \ búrma:x \ múrma:x Dor G; maoiri:- Av; vamrá-s , valmí:- S;