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

On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 11:57:21AM -0400, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> Danny Wier wrote:
> >dwag "a fish"    dwga "many fish"
>
> 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?)
It sure would. Old English had a change of (word-initial) fn > sn, e.g.
sneeze < fne:osan (although the AHD4 calls this example an 'alteration,'
suggesting to me that it wasn't a regular sound change, but still...).

But I like /fk/ :)

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo