IE /st/ > Etruscan /z/

[Patrick C. Ryan]

Dear Peter and IEists:

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter &/or Graham <petegray at btinternet.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 1999 1:41 PM

<snip>

> No metathesis is needed.   Greek zeta routinely represented both /dz/ and
> /zd/.   The latter is shown in such spellings as Athe:naze for Athe:nas-de
> (= to Athens).

Is it not just as likely that Greek zd in these circumstances metathesized
to dz so that zeta always represents dz?

Pat

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[ Moderator's response:
  Probably not, since inscriptional spellings do occasionally show <sd> for
  <z>.
  -rma ]