(February 7, 2024 at 12:28 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote:(February 7, 2024 at 2:51 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: So, let's return to the topic. Recently, I received some criticism of my interpretation of the Croatian river names that "Karašica" cannot come from Illyrian *Kurrurrissia (via a Proto-Slavic form *Kъrъrьsьja) because Proto-Slavic phonotactics supposedly didn't allow four syllables with yers to be consecutive. Do you think that criticism is legit?
I'm not sure, What are the P values?
Well, I don't see how we can calculate the p-value. Can we even be reasonably certain that no Proto-Slavic word contained four consecutive syllables with yers? And even if there were no such words, how can we know it was a phonotactic constraint? No native Proto-Germanic words started with 'p', but plenty of loanwords did (which means it wasn't a phonotactic constraint).