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H.M. Hubey wrote:<br>
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and the change of t to l, which as the renowned German philologist, Wilhelm
Geiger has noted, took place through an intermediate d. This occured sometime
between the 6th-10th centuries A.C.<br>
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Pali Sinhala<br>
putavi polova (earth)<br>
mata mala (dead)</font></font></p>
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I do not believe that either. I think it was th > l, like in Hittite tabarna/labarna
and in many others. Or the th was not<br>
really that but more like the Circassian sounds e.g. the iron-worker in their
Nart Sagas has the name Tlepsh. The word<br>
for iron is temir, tibira, etc and connected with heat e.g., temperature,
tepid, tab, etc. So Circassian has the first syllable<br>
e.g. tlep. <br>
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I cannot justify this except on the basis of nothing more than "symmetry".
See for example Van Fraazen "Symmetry and Science"<br>
or something like it. Or Lord James Clerk Maxwell's fixing up the known laws
of electromagnetism on the basis of<br>
symmetry.<br>
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