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- adjective Alternative form of
wordfinal .
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Examples
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Whether directly or through an intermediary, this must be where internal -kt- comes from while word-final -r has been deleted in the Greek loan.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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Neither Umbrian esunu nor its antecedent *ais-ōno- are nicely derivable from Etruscan aisuna with its word-final -a.
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In part we know this because it carries a uniquely Njombe feature noted by a word-final * u instead of the expected regular proto-West Ruvu * o (that is, it is * - fuku instead of the expected * - fuko).
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Whether directly or through an intermediary, this must be where internal -kt- comes from while word-final -r has been deleted in the Greek loan.
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"It's interesting that you actually propose just the same result of both those particles, except you call it word-final lenition while for Kortlandt it's pre-*i lenition."
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This hypothetical *t of earlier times just so happens to sibilantize in precisely those cases where QAR predicts *word-final* position before Late IE Syncope.
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If, to the contrary, Minoan phonotactic rules mirror those of modern Japanese so closely, one may then wonder if Minoan Linear A actually dropped word-final -n in writing since such a rule would be a perfect source for the Linear B rule to likewise omit all of its more expansive set of coda consonants eg.
Archive 2009-11-01 2009
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Plus, it helps that the underlying stop in the Proto-Steppe plural marker *-it is confidently word-final as both Uralic and Eskimo-Aleut show.
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The insincerity of pronouncing "chicken" as "chicking" is obvious to most simply by the word-final en.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Evidently, to fully understand the reasons for this triplet, it's insufficient to merely know the *tendency* of English word-final stops to acquire a following -u in Japanese.
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