rhotacism from Ray Hickey

[Javier Martinez]

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> But some sound changes are quite irreversible.  Consider loss.  In the
> ancestor of Greek, prevocalic */s/ was lenited to /h/, and the resulting
> /h/ was later lost.  I predict confidently that the Greeks will never
> reverse this change by re-introducing those long-gone /s/s,
 
yes. as a product of analogy, see the -s- futures etc.