word-medial

Here, the replacement of word-medial -h- with a velar stop is what we'd expect of Aegean languages which bar this sound in these positions.

Translating Etruscan zuci 2010

Your appeal to dissimilation is weak considering that the change of word-medial m to v is an otherwise unheard-of process in Latin.

Getting the origins of Mars and Vulcan right 2008

This is because, with the presence of word-final schwa in places that later disappeared, the word-final voicing may be explained as word-medial voicing and this isn't so linguistically rare at all.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

I maintain that word-medial glottal stops did not exist in the language at this stage.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

The reinterpretation of Proto-Semitic glottal stop *ʔ as a creaky-voiced *g̃ by Mid IE speakers makes better sense if we theorize that word-medial glottal stops had already softened to a velar /h/ in Indo-European before contact with Semitic.

Still on the hunt for Semitic-PIE connections 2008

Such is certainly the case of PIE *sweḱs "six" with its voiceless velar *-ḱ- when compared to its Semitic equivalent with word-medial voiced alveolar coronal *-d- and I've explained the exact mechanics of this seemingly odd remapping before on this blog.

Ejective or Pharyngealized Stops in Proto-Semitic? 2008

I believe that word-medial nasal-plus-stop clusters were always native to Etruscan and its prestages.

Cool stuff about Etruscan phonotactics 2008

I believe that word-medial nasal-plus-stop clusters were always native to Etruscan and its prestages.

Cool stuff about Etruscan phonotactics 2008

If the supershort schwa is word-medial, it lengthens an accented vowel in an immediately-preceding open syllable, otherwise all supershort schwas geminate the immediately-preceding consonant instead.

Archive 2008-07-01 2008

This is because, with the presence of word-final schwa in places that later disappeared, the word-final voicing may be explained as word-medial voicing and this isn't so linguistically rare at all.

Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing 2008