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rt-clusters in Avestan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

D. Gary Miller
D. Gary Miller*
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Harvard University
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Abstract

Indo-Iranian ∗-rt- is represented in Avestan sometimes as /Ř/ (written š), sometimes as rt. It is maintained that /Ř/ is the normal phonological reflex of ∗-rt-, and that rt has been restored according to Kuryłowicz's ‘Fourth Law of Analogy’ in motivated categories where there was still awareness of a morpheme boundary between the /r/ and the /t/.

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Language , Volume 44 , Issue 2-Part1 , June 1968 , pp. 274 - 283
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Copyright © 1968 by Linguistic Society of America

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