Re: [tied] Latin barba in disaccord with Grimm's Law?

On 2006-06-23 20:24, Rick McCallister wrote:

> How about bi:bere "to drink"
> but I'm guessing there's been some assimilation from /p/ > /b/
> and that it's related to Slavic pivo, piwo, etc.

It's /bibere/ (short /i/), of course from *píbe/o- < *pí-ph3-e/o-. The
assimilation here may have been motivated by some kind of lingering
awareness that the stem was originally reduplicated.

Piotr