lenition

• “This means that, as in Latin, the distribution of primary /f/ was defective in Etruscan. see linkFirst, Dosuna observes the same p-lenition as I've mentioned many timed before on Paleoglot, minus the conditioning by u.”

  Archive 2009-12-01

• “If anything, the case for lip-rounding causing lenition of /p/ is even stronger given the co-articulation.”

  Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f'

• “Now, this is a matter of detail perhaps but worth noting since p has occasionally eroded to f in Etruscan, particularly next to tautosyllabic u, and this sort of lenition can only rationally happen with a bilabial phoneme, not a labiodental one.”

  Some observations concerning Woodard's The Ancient Languages of Europe

• “As I've remarked before on my blog, Etruscan p consistently shows lenition to a bilabial fricative /ɸ/ whenever it neighbours the high rounded back vowel u.”

  Archive 2009-10-01

• “Yes, bilabial fricatives should be unsurprising, but Etruscan u-triggered lenition is however not common knowledge, so even if you personally don't find that interesting, others certainly will.”

  Concern trolls and the Etruscan bilabial 'f'

• “Strangely, Japanese too shows lenition of dental plosives neighbouring back vowels ie. specifically, the high back unrounded vowel u.”

  Linear A treatment of consonant clusters

• “It's interesting that you actually propose just the same result of both those particles, except you call it word-final lenition while for Kortlandt it's pre-*i lenition.”

  Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person

• “It's interesting that you actually propose just the same result of both those particles, except you call it word-final lenition while for Kortlandt it's pre-*i lenition.”

  Laryngeal overdose in the Indo-European second person

• “The f in this lexeme is merely lenition of p neighbouring tautosyllabic u, particularly when the next syllable contains a front vowel.”

  Disproving a particular translation of TLE 193 once and for all

• “A cursory look on Google reveals that even Frisian follows German on this "wolkom yn", whilst Welsh insists on "croeso i [+lenition]" rather than "croeso yn [+nasalization]".”

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