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

From: stlatos
Message: 48475
Date: 2007-05-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
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> > I imagine that in a situation in western(?) PIE where both p and kW
> > existed depending on dialect and sociolect there has developed a

> But the Celtic & Italic changes occur in a more specific environment
> than that and there's also an opposite rule:

See also my earlier discussion that m & w may undergo similar
changes, maybe gW & b, etc., without any (surviving?) ev.:

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