Re: a help for Piotr

>Hitt. wappu- means "river bank" ("water" is Hitt. watar) and is not related to
>the *h2a(:)p- root of Indo-Iranian or the *h2akW- root of Latin/Romanian.

But, OTOH, couldn't it also be possible to explain the -p- in Romanian
as < -p-, either assuming a "substrate" influence or even some Italic
(dialectal) or Greek influence (e.g. (h)ippo leaps to the eye)? Let's
also consider Romanian "patru" assumed as being a transformation
of Lat. quattuor.; as well as "patrat/pãtrat" < quadrat--.

If such a non-(Latium)-Latin influence is to be excluded, then on which
criteria?

>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal

George Stana