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

From: stlatos
Message: 48618
Date: 2007-05-17

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

> > 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-?

I'd say it isn't; Italic and Celtic were distinct from all other
branches before this change happened. Celtic had kWu>ku before p
could become kW.

I think there never was an Italo-Celtic stage based on unrelated
evidence. Disregarding that, for it to be common Italo-Celtic an
improbable series of changes could allow if *perkWu+ > *perku+ but the
adj. *perkWn.o+ > *kWerkWn.o+ and there was analogy in Italic.