Heteroclitic nouns (the sól/sun type) in Indo-European, feat. Prof. Tony Yates

A presentation by and discussion with Prof. Tony Yates about heteroclitic nouns in Indo-European--the type that produced l/n and r/n alternations in daughter languages (like between English "water" and Old Norse "vatn" or English "sun" and Old Norse "sól"). Some timestamps: 10:51 Quick introduction to Anatolian languages 19:34 Heteroclitic nouns 53:30 Fossils of heteroclitics in Germanic languages 83:00 zaskarais, a "special" Hittite word from left field