--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Nope, AFAIK. And the reintroduction of *kW etc. would have been
even more difficult. Evolution does not flow back like that.
>
> Piotr
Does that include -k- in Russian <v ruké>?
Also Norwegian <mote> 'fashion' (<- French 'mode' and purge of
Danish /d/ in the Danish/other Scandinavian d/t shibboleth, comes to
mind.
Or final -a in coll. Swedish <timma> (for <timme>) 'hour'?
Swedish after the liberation from the Danes and Norwegian in the 19th
century seem to me perfect examples languages "flowing backwards".
> Torsten