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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> On 2007-05-13 18:45, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > But on the other hand, after all these examples : how somebody can
say
> > that akW-a: and ap-a: are 2 different roots?
>
> I can say just that, especially because *h2ap- occurs in branches
that
> have no examples of *kW or *k(^)w > p (Indo-Iranian, Anatolian).
> Unambiguous reflexes of the <aqua> word are known only from Latin and
> Germanic, so its PIE status is far from assured.
>
> Piotr
>
Sorry, Piotr, but I cannot detect based on what you applied 2 different
criteria:
1)
wlkWos is almost in all PIE dialects
wlpos is only in some...
the majority has kW, the minority has p
2)
h2ap- is in all PIE dialects
<aqua> only in Latin and Germanic
the majority has p , the minority has kW
Despite the majority/minority percentage...showing that the p-forms for
water are for sure 'largely spreaded' than the p-forms of 'wolf'
the similarities are obvious...
My question to you is:
Why you don't propose 2 different roots for 'wolf:
*wlkWos/*wlpos
but you still think to have two different roots for water:
*apa/*aqua?
Marius
P.S.:
On my side, I thought at the following scenario in order to explain all
these:
1. PIE was a kW-language
2. Once upon the time PIE was divided in two 2 PIE dialects:
a p-PIE dialect and a q-PIE-dialect
the q-Dialect has:
akWa: & wlkWos * kwetwores & penkWe etc..
the p-Dialect has:
apa: & wlpos & petwores & penpe etc..
3. Later, the peoples of the q-PIE-dialect mixed with the peoples of
the p-PIE-dialect (like 'p-Dialect peoples conquered the q-Dialect
peoples' etc..)
=> This will explain :
why we have
apa & wlpos & petwores & penpe on one hand
and akWa: & wlkWos * kwetwores & penkWe on the other hand
and 'IN THE SAME TIME' in later PIE
4. NEXT : PIE started to split => the different New Dialects inheriting
different words and different proportions of the ancient peoples of
p/q-Dialects
Even, I know that something is wrong with this p/q Model too => maybe
it can offers at least a possible path to solve this puzzle.
Marius