Indo-Iranian

[Rick Mc Callister]

>On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Rick Mc Callister wrote:

>> Looking at Watkins's chart of correspondences
>> IE	Sanskrit	Avestan		Old Persian	OCS	Lithuanian
>> k	s'		s		th		s	s
>> kw	k/c		k/c		k		k/c^/c	k
>> g	j		z/g		g/d		z	z
>> gw	g/j		g/j		g/j		g/z^/z	g
>> gh	h		g/z		g/d		z	z
>> gwh	gh/h		g/j		g/j		g/z^/z	g

>> 	Why does Old Persian look as far removed [or more] from Avestan as
>> any of the others? What's the time difference? Is the difference between
>> Avestan and Old Persian as great as the chart would indicate?

>First, the chart is not accurate, probably due to inaccurate copying (I
>don't know the exact source).

	The chart appears exactly as shown in Calvert Watkins, ed. The
American Heritage Dictioanry of Indo-European Roots, rev. ed. Boston:
Houghton, 1985.