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Re: Saying "Thank you."

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Sunday, August 26, 2001, 19:18
> Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 08:16:47 -0400 > From: Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> > > Suposedly, Danish has had a change series [t]>[d]>[D]>[d]>[D] intervocally > (any Danes to confirm/deny?).
According to my reference, the developments from PIE in intervocalic position were: PIE PGc MDa [t] > [T] > [D] or [t] > [D] > [D] when Verner's law applies [d] > [t] > [D] Note that even though Gothic spells the [D] in the second line as <d>, there was never a [d] involved --- and the same applies to the specific Danish lenition in the third line. Danish does have defricativization of _initial_ [T] and [D] to [t] and [d], but those show no sign of leniting again. In fact, I think it is Swedish that has defricativization of intervocalic [D] --- compare Icelandic fa

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