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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-05-16 17:20, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Ahem. You have made your derivation more parsimonious by dodging

your

> > own argument from pompe < *kWonkWe < *kWenkWe < *penkWe, which is
> > therefore also a three-step process.
>
> But if *kWénkWe is accepted for common Italo-Celtic (whether a true
> synapomorphy or an areal innovation), we get a neat scheme for both
> branches, with *pompe and <qui:nqe> derived from the same PIt. form.

The

> overall picture _is_ parsimonious.

But, how can *p_kW > *kW_kW be common Italo-Celtic if both Hercynia
and quercus go back to *perkWu-?