[language] A Little Action

[H.M. Hubey]

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1. sar (to write) Sumerian

2. s'Ir (to write) Chuvash (Bolgaric Turkic, also called l~r Turkic)
3. sIz (to draw) Karachay-Balkar (Kipchak Turkic)

4. saz (clay) Kar-Balk
5. sadIr (bog, clay) Kar-Balk

6. yaz (to write) Turkish
7. caz (to write) Kar-Balk

Secondary meaning of yaz/caz is "to roll, to flatten, to spread as in
rolling
dough or rolling clay).

8. sar (to wrap) Turkish.
9. ser (to spread) Turkish


Now "rolling dough" is completely unconnected with "writing", or is it?
"Rolling dough" is completely unconnected with "clay" or is it?
"Drawing" is completely unconnected with "writing", or is it?
"To wrap" is completely unconnected with "writing" or is it?
"To spread" is completely unconnected with "writing" or is it?

Among others one sees here dh>d, (sadIr), dh > r (sar) and dh>z (saz).

There are other examples in Turkic and I feel confident that zetaization
and rhotacization are solved.

The rule is

I.  dh > {d,r,z,y}

Many of these can be found in Turkic, since dh exists in Turkut
(Clauson).

In parallel with this, using symmetry arguments (and solving similar
problems)
there is

II>  th > {t,l,s/sh,w} + {dh}

The + is to be read as set union. The s/sh is there because whatever
this
change was about, it has apparently never completed, at least in Turkic.

These laws hold for other languages in the ancient Mideast including
Akkadian, Sumerian, and Hittite.

As for why phonetic forms have small distances whereas the semantic
forms seem to have large distances (dissimilarities) there is an obvious
connection.

I think some on the Indo-Iranian list have already seen it.


More to follow.

PS. Is there a clearly-attested case of k>s, something which is very
definitive
and something which is definitely not a case of t>s and t>k which looks
like
k=s and which at least one person has interpreted as k>s. I have been
asking
this question for many years, and there is a very good reason for it.


--
M. Hubey

hubeyh at mail.montclair.edu
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