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My latest chamlang, in the style of Dhannuá being "plausibly Celtic" at first glance, this shall be "plausibly at first glance" a mystical love child of Proto-Greek and Proto-Albanian, avec dashes of ''liquamen''. It is named after the Boeotian word for sweet-voiced, ''ἴδηφιν''. | My latest chamlang, in the style of Dhannuá being "plausibly Celtic" at first glance, this shall be "plausibly at first glance" a mystical love child of Proto-Greek and Proto-Albanian, avec dashes of ''liquamen''. It is named after the Boeotian word for sweet-voiced, ''ἴδηφιν''. | ||
==A Tentative Chronological Order of Sound Change== | |||
===The elimination of the laryngeals and their effect on nearby vowels=== | |||
''Hoffman's Law'' (i) | |||
Not unlike Cowgill's law in the Germanic branch, there appears to be occasional consonant reflexes of certain laryngeals in Dephinian. | |||
The sound change, called Hoffman's law (sometimes Hoffman-Cowgill) after Maribel Hoffman's discovery (Hoffman 1988: 201 n. 2) that either Cowgill's law or something very similar to it operates to a certain extent in some Dephinian words albeit with the modification that the reflex is voiced, i.e. *g and not *k (as in Germanic). | |||
: PIE *gʷih₃wós > *gʷigwós > *gʷígʷos > Deph βιφος /ˈbipʰos/. | |||
This sound change must predate the change of the labiovelars to labials, as there is no attested **βιυς /biːus/ which would be the regular outcome of a form **bíh₃wós with intervocalic w- and laryngeal deletion. | |||