lenition

"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 2009

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 2009

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 2009

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 2009

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 2009

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' 2009

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

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

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 2009

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.

Imaginary "/f/-aspiration" in Etruscan 2009

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' 2009