From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 15004
Date: 2002-09-03
>If IP.S. There are *no* words with initial gu-.
>look in my Latin dictionary, I see that there are in fact only 5 clusters of
>words with initial qua-: (1) the pronominal cluster (qua, qualis, quando,
>quantu, quam, quasi); (2) the word Quadi [a Germanic tribe]; (3) qua:lus,
>quasillus "basket"; (4) the "four" cluster (quadra(tus), quadri-, quadru-,
>quart-, quattuor); (5) quasso, quatio "to shake".