Quoting R A Brown <ray@...>:
> Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > Quoting John Vertical <johnvertical@...>:
> >
> >
> >>And I'd be somewhat surprized if stop _phonemes_ other than /?/ were
> created
> >>by epenthetic stop insertion.
> >
> >
> > Why? omre > ombre > o~bre > obre seems easy enough to imagine ...
>
> One doesn't just have to imagine it. In ancient Greek, the accusative of
> "man" (adult male) was _andra_ <-- *anra (cf. Nom. ane:r, Voc aner).
>
> In the modern language, the 'official' form is [andra] /antra/ but in
> some dialects it is [adra]
>
> The phonemic status of [d] in MG is controversial; but arguably those
> dialects have [d] without preceding nasal do have phonemic /d/.
Nice to have one's intuitions confirmed. :)
Andreas