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CHAPTER III
INDO-EUROPEAN CONSONANT SYNTHESIS
11. Indo-European Consonant Synthesis
Consonant Synthesis chiefly includes assimilation of consonants. IE protospeech shows a marked preference of regressive assimilation. In other words the first consonant is assimilated by the second, i.e. if the second is voiced the first becomes voiced and if the second is voiceless the first becomes voiceless and so on. But progressive assimilation is also attested in a few cases. Sometimes also a glide appears as a connecting link between two consonants. This is more certain ib. case of s glide between dentals and rather uncertain in other cases due to poverty of comparative evidence. 12. IE voiced non-aspirate +voiceless stop or s>IE voice
less non-aspirate-voiceless stop or s. IE yug tto-s>IE yuktah, Av yuxto cp Gk zeuktos
(KIE yeuq-to-s), Lat junctus (<IE yung-to-s). IE bhag +ter > IE bhaq-ter > Skt (vi)-bhaktar, Av
baxtar. IE tyego +to-s > IE tyequ-to-s > Skt tyaktaḥ, Gk
septós. IE iĝ+-to-s > IE ifo-to-s> Skt istah, Av ištő. IE wid +10-5>IE wit-to-s>Skt vit-tah, cp Av vista
(< IE wit'to-). IE yod+quid > IE yos-q"id > Skt yaccit, Av yatcit,
Gk (Hom) hótti.
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