Hi!
Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> writes:
>...
> Also Old Spanish, but [jt] became palatalized /t/ and now [tS] in modern
> Spanish, e.g
> VL |octo| /Okto/ --> */ojto/ --> /ot_jo/ --> /otSo/ |ocho|
Ah!
>...
> Things were different in eastern Romance, cf. Romanian:
> opt (eight) <-- octo
> fapt <-- factu(m)
Oh, I did not know that -- should read my dictionaries more carefully...
>...
> Gaelic is a good example of consonants that have become vowels.
> ...
Ah!
>...
> CSX /ni/ --> /nZ\i/ --> /Z\i/ --> /z`i\/ --> /r\=/ --> /@r`/ -->
> /Ar`/ --> /A/
!!
So I assume Japanese /ni/ is *cognate* to Mandarin /@r`/, too.
> So, just about anything goes :)
Thanks for all the examples. This is exactly the input I was
searching for.
> > Gah! Looks like PIE laryngeals. Could get tricky.
>
> :-D
>
> > Have fun!
>
> Amen!
Ok, I have initiated borrowing a book about modern laryngal theory in
PIE... :-)
This is fun!
**Henrik