From: stlatos
Message: 70148
Date: 2012-10-10
>That is only a problem if you refuse to believe in irregular dissimilation.
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <sean@> wrote:
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> > Only ridiculous acrobatics can attempt to move around the clearly irreg. nature of related changes such as:
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> > [...]
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> > m>n-f in:
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> > [temafra:i] tenebrae (f p tan) = darkness L; támisra:s V S; trAms^á = twilight Kv; demar = twilight OHG;
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> The popular view that Latin <tenebrae> arose by labial dissimilation from expected *temebrae cannot be justified by other examples. If such dissimilation actually occurred, it should have affected <bimembris>, where the heavier cluster -mbr- would have an even greater dissimilative force than -br-. But no such *binembris is found.
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