Re: [tied] Latin is a q-Dialect having p- from kW , PIE is simil

On 2007-05-15 07:15, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> On 2007-05-15 00:44, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
>> p-Celtic *pempe
>> pre-Germanic *pempe
>> p-Italic *pVmpe very probable *pempe too..
>>
>> I mean this is quite enough to postulate : Dialectal PIE *pempe
>
> Of course it isn't, and nobody to my knowledge has postulated any such
> thing. Regular and independently confirmed sound changes account for
> Gallo-Brittonic and Sabellic *pempe, so no arbitrary "dialectal variant"
> is needed for them.

P.S. Even better than that, Proto-Italic *kWenkWe (as opposed to
"dialectal PIE *pempe") explains *pompe (the actual P-Italic form): the
change of accented *kWe > *kWo in Sabellic was earlier than *kW > p.

P.