Re: PIE *akWa: 'water'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@>
> wrote:
>
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> > <richard.wordingham@> wrote:
>
> >> '*h2ap reflects sporadic *kW > *p'
>
> > 'Sporadic'? what kind of rule is this?
>
> It's akin to the various assimilation rules seen in Romanian - it

may

> happen, it may not happen. It's also rather like the [CwO] > [CO]
> change that has happened in English at various times, so that it is
> now littered with silent 'w', eg. 'sword', 'two', 'who', along with
> currently variable losses such as /k-/ v. /kw-/ in 'quart(er)'.
> Another example in English is sporadic shortening - 'head' (but

Scots

> has regular /hi:d/), 'bread', 'good', 'flood'.
>
> Richard.
>

Nothing 'is sporadic' in Romanian, only some cases are not well
explained yet, most of them due to this 'simple model':

Let's try to derived them 'easily from Latin'

and this 'EASYLY TO DERIVE FROM LATIN' MODEL (still asserted also in
this forum, by some) arrived till such monstruosities like the two
below ones :

codru < *quodrum < quadrum
patru < quattuor


Marius