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One of the bigger mysteries of the Indo-Iranian branch is its reflexes of the Indo-European *l. As a rules all *l's become *r. In the Iranian branch this is well attested; Avestan, Old and Middle Persian all have this regularly. Then all of a sudden in Modern Persian this /l/ starts showing up again...
Guess what...? they started teaching us sanskrit in class now :o on top off all the shit they're teaching... grr... Dunno why the hell they started, maybe they wanted to increase our misery or my misery ;) to be exact. Class sucks already... now sanskrit??? :o haaaa... nobody in the world can beat...
From Wikipedia: The swastika (from Sanskrit: svástika स्वस्तिक ) is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at right angles, in either right-facing (卐) form or its mirrored left-facing (卍) form. The swastika can also be drawn as a traditional swastika, but with a second 90° bend in each arm. Archaeo...
*n stems in PIE traditionally end in *-ōn in the nominative which comes from an earlier *on-s (Known as Szemerenyi's law). While this is a very common reconstruction, much of the reconstruction is dependant on one language, Greek. Greek n-stems indeed end in -ων, but I have my doubts whether that...
