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

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

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > The point being that the PIE root *pag-/*pak- root should be instead
> > *(a)kWag-/pag-/pak-, a derivative of the *akWa-/apa- root, the kW/p
> > alternation being of the same pre-PIE origin, cf that that
> > alternation exists within Celtic, Italic and Germanic (German Luft
> > / Dutch lucht).
>
> That's a specifically Dutch change.

In that gloss, yes.

> Are you talking about how it
> appears KW > P in some Germanic words (wolf, sheep)?

That too.

> Either way I
> don't think it has to do with PIE.

I think they do. The geographical distribution of the kW/p variants in
akWa/apa can't be aligned with any of the similar variants in Celtic
(q-Celtic vs. p-Celtic), Italic (Latin vs. Oscan-Umbrian) and Germanic
(the above examples). Therefore I suspect some sort of kW/p variant
distribution (sociolects?, substrate-induced?), already existed before
these three groups became separated.


Torsten