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Re: Proto-Germanic: Question

From:Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Saturday, December 29, 2001, 14:30
A lot of sound change is conditioned by environment, and word-initial sound
changes are often different from internal ones, due often (for example) to
anticipatory asimilation or dissimilation.
Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Joe Hill 
  To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU 
  Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 9:43 AM
  Subject: Proto-Germanic: Question


 If PIE /k_w/ turns to PG /x_w/ or /h_w/, surely, PIE /k_wetwores/ should come
out as /x_wiTwores/ instead of /fiTwores/ Or am I completely wrong?