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From: Andrei Markine

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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:32 AM

Subject: [phoNet] nasal *n, Re: Phonetic change lo -- no in some languages

That is the expected regular reflex in Slavic is e~ < In- < *n. How are present forms ne-/ni- explained?

 

Secondary, from the isolation form of the negative particle (*ne) and its derivatives. Cf. English un- (inherited) and non- (innovated).

 

Piotr