Lenition

"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." ❋ Unknown (2009)

As I've remarked before on my blog, Etruscan p consistently shows lenition to a bilabial fricative /ɸ/ whenever it neighbours the high rounded back vowel u. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Strangely, Japanese too shows lenition of dental plosives neighbouring back vowels ie. specifically, the high back unrounded vowel u. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The f in this lexeme is merely lenition of p neighbouring tautosyllabic u, particularly when the next syllable contains a front vowel. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If anything, the case for lip-rounding causing lenition of /p/ is even stronger given the co-articulation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now, this is a matter of detail perhaps but worth noting since p has occasionally eroded to f in Etruscan, particularly next to tautosyllabic u, and this sort of lenition can only rationally happen with a bilabial phoneme, not a labiodental one. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This means that, as in Latin, the distribution of primary /f/ was defective in Etruscan. see linkFirst, Dosuna observes the same p-lenition as I've mentioned many timed before on Paleoglot, minus the conditioning by u. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A cursory look on Google reveals that even Frisian follows German on this "wolkom yn", whilst Welsh insists on "croeso i [+lenition]" rather than "croeso yn [+nasalization]". ❋ DC (2009)

Yes, bilabial fricatives should be unsurprising, but Etruscan u-triggered lenition is however not common knowledge, so even if you personally don't find that interesting, others certainly will. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I interpret Etruscan eślem-zaθrum '18' as a product of lenition before the following liquid l, just as you rightly observe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That's not the asymmetry I protest against, it's that there would be two different lenition processes going on in the exact same environment at the same timeframe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Considering also that a long consonant is effectively a "fortis consonant" and considering that such consonants already existed as voiced laryngealized stops at this stage, long consonants would be quickly reinterpreted as their voiced counterparts via lenition. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Considering that his reconstructed pronouns curiously use only voiced consonants, an attentive linguist might consider the effects of sentence-internal lenition on grammatical elements and more sensibly reconstruct unvoiced *s for *z in the 1ps pronoun or *t instead of *d for the 2ps pronoun. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sentence-internal lenition is certainly worth looking into, IMHO. ❋ Unknown (2007)