From: H.M. Hubey
Message: 495
Date: 2003-08-08
08-08-03 09:37, Richard Wordingham wrote:
> Vedic Sanskrit almost completed [l] > [r], and I believe some
> Iranian languages did complete the merger. Piotr could name
> examples. Otherwise, I'll have to hunt through the archives on
> Cybalist.
Well, Avestan had no /l/ at all, and later Iranian /l/'s are of
secondary origin
(e.g. *d [and intervocalic *-t-] > l in Pashto,How about th>l, th>dh>d instead
*rj > lHow about -rth->rsh> rj and rth>rl>l
in Ossetic,
Obviously the principle(s) has/have repercussions on reconstruction.
/l/ in foreign loans, etc.).
Piotr
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