Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

Andreas Johansson wrote:
> _Ha_ meaning "this" would be
> differentiated by expansion to _ha dza_ "this one" and _ha dze:n_ "these
> many", which'd then contract to _hazd_ and _hazden_, which later looks like
> _hazd_ with the regular pl ending _-(e)n_. Is a development of this kind
> plausible?
Except for the /dz/ -> /zd/ change, it seems reasonable to me.

Well, if there's a general prohibition against syllable-final /dz/ (or
perhaps more generally stop-fricative), that could explain the
metathesis.

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