[Piotr]
This is completely wrong. Intervocalically,
*-bH- > Lat. -b- and *-dH- > Lat. -d-, but next to an *r (and in some
other special environments) we get Lat. -b- from *dH as well, as in verbum <
*werdHom or ruber < *h1rudHros. An -f- appears only in loans from other
Italic languages.
> So in this case the latin should have had "farfa" and not
"barba".
*farba, actually.
> And this is true, indeed the latin have had the word
farfechie=moustache
???
[Moeller]
I was infformed in the italian language farfechie =
moustache and I supposed it has a latin origin in corelation with farfa <
bhardha .If this farfa >*bhardha is wrong then there are three
posibilites:
- I was wrong infformed
- the italian word is not a latin word
- the rule with *r is wrong
best regards
a. moeller