From: Richard Wordingham
Date: 2003-01-28
>palatalisation
> >Was there really in IE an opposition between the labiovelars kw, gw
> >and ghw and the sequenses ku gu and ghu (with ayllabic u)
>
> Don't you understand the difference between *kWi- "who, what" and
> *kwon-? The latter becomes Sanskrit /s'van-/ because of
> of *k. However *kW- normally becomes Sanskrit /k/ or whenpalatalized
> it becomes /c/.For a more phonetic discussion, see
>
> - gLeN