[tied] Re: The role of analogy, alliteration and sandhi in counting

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Richard Wordingham wrote:
> >
> > PIE *kWekWlos > OE _hweowol_, _hweogol_, _hwe:ol_ > English

_wheel_.

> >
> > Richard.
>
> from PGmc *khwegwlan; The explanation I got here is that Germanic

and Latin

> lost the labialisation of "kW" , thus there is no kW to consider.

Tha later

> change of "k" to "h" is properly Germanic.

So where do the two instances of /w/ in 'khwegwlan' come from? It's
not unreasonable to say that the _second_ *kW broke up in proto-
Germanic, but the first one survived.

Richard.