Re: etymology of ibri:q?
- From: "Yusuf B Gursey" <ybg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 2 Aug 2006 08:02:33 -0700
Marc Adler wrote:
Yusuf B Gursey wrote:
x ~ z alterations are found in iranian languages.
Page 74 of Clive Holes' "Modern Arabic - Structures, Functions, and
Varieties" (thanks to Yusuf for recommending this fascinating book)
describes /q/ > /g/ > /dZ/ > /dz/ changes in Arabic dialects, so I
imagine the opposite could happen.
but the change in this case is I suspect internal to persian. I forgot
what the original indo-iranian phoneme was. but iranian also has the
change s > h (for example:
(indic) sindh > (persian) hind). in the case of 'ibri:q vs a:bri:z ; I
suspect the arabic used a formation from the past stem of the verb:
ri:x (ri:*kh*), rather than the present stem ri:z .
Although, when you think of it, the /k/ > /th/ change in Spanish or /k/
/tS/ in Italian aren't that different. Indeed, a /k/ > /ts/ change occurs in Arabic (ibid.).
Marc
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