Species Identity of PIE Squirrel (WAS Re: Live squirrel)

From: tgpedersen
Message: 45386
Date: 2006-07-17

> In Germanic *w > *gW between i-r (as *daxiwr+ > ta:cor in OE);
there
> was dissim. losing initial *w. So *wìwernó+s / *wìwr.no+ > *ìwr.no+
>
> *ìgWr.no+ > *ikWurna+ etc.

What is this dissim. rule that gets rid of the initial w-? Are there
other examples. Witczak makes *w- > Ø part of his substrate language.


Torsten