From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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Date: | Friday, November 3, 2000, 13:39 |
> Very interesting. So Proto-PN *f > Maori /wh/ > Maori /f/. Soundchanges> are supposed to be irreversible!!Unless you're dealing with High German, at least in the case of Vater "father". From PIE, the middle consonant migrated from t > þ > ð > d > t. DaW.