[gothic-l] Re: Athanareiks = Heidrek?

[Anthony Appleyard]

  sig <sigmund at algonet.se> wrote:-
> ...  This theory relies heavily on my assumption that Go. "z"
> has some relation with r, which it could have if drawing from
> the little I have seen in superficial sanscrit studies, where
> they seem to treat toning r (with a dot under it) as a vowel
> pronounced vocalized rs, ~= vocalized z. ...

I have not heard of r becoming z in Sanskrit. I read that now that Sanskrit is
a dead learned language like Latin, that in India the Sanskrit vocalic "r" is
conventionally pronounced "ri", whence many misspellings between "ri" and "r."
in Sanskrit down the centuries, including "Sanskrit" from "sam.skr.ta-". But
when Sanskrit was a spoken natural language, vocalic "r" would have been
vocalic "r" in the beginning, not "ri", else the two would not have been
written differently.


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