In ancient Greek, for example, the decline of the liquid in "plokos" (= plokamos, curl of hair), "plekō" (= twist, turn), is enough to create the words "pokos" (= raw sheep's wool), "pekō" (= comb, card).
The correctness of these associations is also supported by Modern Greek with the fully corresponding forms "plokari" (= hair for processing), "pokari" (= bundle of hair around the spindle).
If we were to ask a "synchronist" whether the words plokari and pokari belong to synchrony, he would answer affirmatively because the terms evidently coexist within the system of Modern Greek.
However, it is also clear that they are sequential, meaning that "pokari" emerged from "plokari" within the context of an evolutionary process that took place over time, which is fundamentally the essence of what we call diachrony.
This would imply an intertwining of synchrony and diachrony that challenges the strict, absolute, and dogmatic separation made by Saussure.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
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