Re: Hospitable/hostile (Was: Dipping my toe in the water)

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 10:43:19 -0000, Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
wrote:


>French /d2/: not too weird, but I'm too lazy to look up how it came to
>have a front rounded vowel.
duo:s > do:s > dous > d2ys > d2:x > d2h > d2: > d2

>Armenian /Erku/: /d/ and /r/ can both be realized as a flap [4], /w/
>often has some velar constriction, and then an epenthetic vowel:
>
>    */dwo/ > [4wo] > [4ku] > /rku/ > /Erku/
Or perhaps dw- > dg_w- > rg_w- > rk_w- > ...


Basilius

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