by Patrick C. Ryan
(2/12/2001)
This is as specifically the illustration of a tent-canopy as it is possible for an ancient artist to have drawn in outline.
Coptic pe, ‘heaven', shows the influence of the medial j reconstructed for Egyptian pt.
Jerzy Kurlylowicz proposed in 1935 (Etudes Indoeuropéennes I, Krakow, 53f.) that *b + H, *d + H, and *g + H would become Indo-Iranian bh, dh,, and gh. To this, we can cautiously add that it appears possible that the common IE termination -ta:, a secondary suffix, forming abstract substantives, which appears in baita:, appears to be an alternate response to d + H (through t + H and th).
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