Re: Tech: One, two, three, four, five consonant words

Danny Wier wrote:
>Sorry Andreas, I forgot to answer your question!
>
>| Dwga! And I thought Tairezazh had scary initial clusters! (I'm currently
>| trying to decide whetehr /fk/ is a valid initial cluster or not. If not,
>| would a fk>sk change be believeable?)
>
>Only if your language (or just words with fk-) was inherited by
>Indo-Europeans.
Eh? Why would fk>sk be believeable in IE langs but not in others?

>Then again, Greek has initial combinations like pt-, ct-, bd-, phth-,
>chth-,
>gn-, mn-, ks- and ps-...
Tairezazh have some lengthy initial clusters, eg /stS-/ and /tsf-/. I think
it's got IE somewhere in its remote ancestry - at any rate it's rather
IEish.

/fk-/ would descend form a collapsed initial syllable. Eg; earlier _fakázzu_
becomes _f@kazz@_>_fkaz_. The question is whether the last form is going to
suffer a further change >skaz.

                                        Andreas
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