Question from the back row (Was Re: [tied] Finnish hevonen "horse"

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> *kW is a unitary phoneme and a single segment
> (labiovelar stop), whereas *k^w is a cluster of two
> phonemes realised as two segments (palato-velar stop
> plus labiovelar approximant). The two are
> consistently distinguished in all Satem languages
> (e.g. in Slavic *kW > *k but *k^w > *sv), and were
> evidently kept distinct in PIE, though they
> admittedly merged later in several branches, partly
> or completely.

*****GK: Working from Latin. Do "aqua" (water) and
"equus" (horse) go back to the same phoneme(s) in PIE
re their "qu"? *****



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