Re: IE *pe/pi

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 07-07-03 07:07, alex wrote:
>
> > Are there more examples where from an IE *pe/pi we have in Latin a
> > "qui/que"?
>
> Second thoughts:
>
> If you mean _any_ cases where *p > Latin /kW/, this happened

through

> assimilation in words originally containing *p followed by *kW in

the

> next syllable:
>
> *pekW-e- > *kWekWe- > coquo: 'cook'
> *penkWe > *kWenkWe > quinque 'five'
> *perkW-u- > *kWerk(W)u- > quercus 'oak'

And to complete this subsequent dissimilation, quinque > Proto-
Romance *cinque! (Actually, the apparent dissimilation in *kwerkWus

> quercus may simply be the same sound change as in *ekWos 'horse' >

Old Latin ecus. In that case, the <qu> was restored from the oblique
cases.)

Richard.