Re: Saying "Thank you."

Padraic Brown wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
> >> (ti - i as in "bit"
> >
> >Interesting -- how do you get from /T/ to /t/ here?
>
> Perhaps under Kemrese influence? Both Brithenig and Kerno have
> ty / tu for the pronoun in question. Perhaps it's an isolated
> oddity.
As he said, it does indeed arise from external borrowing. IIRC, the only
known cases of a fricative to stop shift occur in Papua New Guinea.  It is
at any rate an extremely rare type of sound change.

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Thomas Wier | AIM: trwier

"Aspidi men Saiôn tis agalletai, hên para thamnôi
  entos amômêton kallipon ouk ethelôn;
autos d' exephugon thanatou telos: aspis ekeinê
  erretô; exautês ktêsomai ou kakiô" - Arkhilokhos

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