Re: [tied] Re: Labiovelar in Latin

tolgs001 wrote:

> NOTA BENE: nobody - from Arad+Bihor through Maramuresh
> to Moldavia + Ukraine doesn't say *g'inars or *g'ine,
> instead of vinars/ginars/jinars and vine/zine+zîne
> And I doubt that aMaramuresher would ever say *zin
> instead of vin ("wine")

Why should they say? Is there a *gw in the root for wine?

>
> Because, after all, these z & Z alterations of the
> v (always of the v) are rather exceptions, not the
> rule: the certain sub-dialect speakers themselves
> do not apply this change to all words starting with
> a v-
>
> George

the "zi" instead of "vi" as particularity is just for Maramuresh, the
other "belts" use "g'i" instead of " vi" .And how you observed too, not
in every word, but there where we have by default in "g" in the PIE
radicals.