From: liberty@...
Message: 10206
Date: 2001-10-14
>Is Vedic áp- "water" one of these and so a cognate of Latin aqua?
> That is my theory (there are also the cases where in Germanic we
> find *b for reconstructed *ghw, such as G. "bitten" < *ghwedh-).
> There are also cases in other branches where we find unexpected
> /p/ (e.g. Lat. <lupus> "wolf" or Arm. <leard> (*leprt) "liver").