Re: [tied] Labiovelar in Latin

On Fri, 16 May 2003 07:06:04 +0200, alex_lycos <altamix@...>
wrote:

>From the conntact area of Latin, from the geographic space it remains
>interesting the Osc., Umbric, Celtic, Greek .
>As we see from your draw, there is everywhere an gW > b, just Latin
>makes here an exception where it is assumed PIE *gW > w. If indeed there
>have been no stagium *b, it has to be searched. The omonimity shouldn't
>be a problem here but I guess there is some work to do for showing the
>transformations.

That would be work in vain, because the wole thing is impossible. *gW
never went through a stage *b in Latin.

>P.S.
>I am sure you are convinced as well as me that Romanian "viaTa"
>dialectal with shiboleth "g'iaTa" is exactly the form of PIE *gWiete

There is no PIE *gWiete. Rom. viat,a is from Latin vi:vitia.


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