Re: Stacking up on standard works

From: Tavi
Message: 71033
Date: 2013-03-05

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <sean@...> wrote:
>
> > Gamkrelidze-Ivanov and Nikolayev agree in deriving vitrum from
*k´wei-t- 'light, white' (cfr. Lithuanian s^vìtra- 'sandpaper'),
with *k´w- > Latin w- as in *k´wep- > vapor.
>
> That's not kYw- but kw- (kvapas = breath/odor Lith; etc.), and
neither would be a regular change.
>
That's right. In fact, considering *gW- > Latin w-, think *k- > *g-
happened in these and other words such as glo:ria < *kleu-.

In my opinion, these and other "irregular" changes (rather frequent in
Latin) would indicate these words followed a different path than the
lexicon considered to be "inherited".