Re: Conlang for giant caterpillars

Steg Belsky scripsit:

> Is that the same thing as a "lateralized sibilant"?
> A book i saw about the history of Hebrew has a chart of the phonemes of
> Proto-Semitic, and it has two "lateralized" consonants:
>
> {s'} (s-acute), >> Hebrew _sin_, a "lateralized sibilant".
Almost certainly.  Note the English word "balsam", which comes
from the root Bet-Sin-Mem (probably from South Arabian;
it's Shin in Hebrew itself).

The lateral sibilant split into a lateral and a sibilant
in Greek > Latin > English.

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John Cowan                                      cowan@ccil.org
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