Re: Can realism be retro-fitted?

Carsten Becker wrote:

> I've wondered how to do that many times before, too. I just
> don't know what to change in Ayeri... The problem is that
> it's as good as absolutely regularly, the phonetic inventory
> is quite easy as well without any anomalies. The only
> *really* irrealistic quirk is that the animate patient
> marker, _-aris_ changes into _sira_ when used as a preverbal
> article. I wonder where that might come from ... normally,
> words aren't just reversed.
Could it have been something like -asis vs. sisa originally? Latin has
/s/ between vowels developing into /r/ in words like flos, floris.