Re: Metathesis?

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Henrik Theiling <theiling@A...> wrote:
> [snip]
> ...  Is there no CCC
> metathesis? :-)
>
> That's what I planned for S11 and what seems to be strange.  E.g. I
> plan to have /tsl/ > [lst] in the sandhi rules in order to enforce
> falling sonority.  But when I wrote the rule, I got the feeling that
> this might be too much.  The papers I read on the train (very good
> sources, BTW :-)) had no examples of CCC metathesis.
I don't know if this helps;
but there has been longer-distance metathesis than that, hasn't there?

miraglo --> milagro
periglo --> peligro

and, I'm not sure, but ISTR something about a cognate for the
word "pilgrim" also?

Tom H.C. in MI

(Of course, I could be wrong.)

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