Re: Question from the back row (Was Re: [tied] Finnish hevonen "hor

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 10761
Date: 2001-10-31

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:59:39 -0800 (PST), george knysh
<gknysh@...> wrote:

>*****GK: Working from Latin. Do "aqua" (water) and
>"equus" (horse) go back to the same phoneme(s) in PIE
>re their "qu"? *****

No. Leaving out the laryngeals for simplicity, PIE *ek^wos "horse" is
e-k^-w-o-s, *akWa: "water" is a-kW-a: