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Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: > Isaac Penzev wrote: > > > I looked into my papers, and found that ġeyn is [R], that may come also from > > Romance -rr- as in Portuguese. So 'dog' is _peġo_ < perro, written as پيغ . > > Too bad there is no r with dot above in Latin-3! Haste does not make right. I looked again at the paper feeling there was something wrong with this form, and realised that it was version 0.2, abandoned long ago. So, ġeyn indeed is /R/, but -rr- remains a plain geminate /r:/, and thus 'dog' is پيرُّ . -- Yitzik