Re: CONLANG Digest - 1 Nov 2000
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 7, 2000, 6:19 |
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>Christophe and Elliott wrote:
>Another aside: _How_, just how, do things like Proto-IE *dw and *bhr
> become Armenian *rk and *lb?
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>I don't know for *bhr, but I know nearly by heart how *dw evolved
> into *rk in Armenian. My example is IE *dwo (two) becoming
>*erku in Armenian:
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> I'm not entirely sure, but *bhr > lb looks like a simple metathesis
> *bhr > rbh followed by a change r > l and bh > b.>
I'd always wondered about Armenian.....thanks.
Similar but different: there are several languages in the Moluccan area of
Indonesia where *nd is reflected as /k/. And at least one where, as in
Hawaiian and Samoan, *t > k.