Re: Saying "Thank you."

> 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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