Re: Existence of PIE

From: tgpedersen
Message: 52019
Date: 2008-01-28

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> At 1:40:07 PM on Monday, January 28, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:
>
>
> > BTW veklu > vieux, so ve(s)p- > **vie(s)p-? Not so, so
> > there must have been two v-sounds: v and w, in Western
> > Romance.
>
> Latin /w/ had already become /B/ by the time the Gmc. word
> was borrowed; Gmc. /w-/ hardened to OFr /gw-/, while LLat.
> /B/ > OFr /v/.

You don't need the detour via /B/ if Germanic /w/ was borrowed directly.


Torsten