From: tgpedersen
Message: 27171
Date: 2003-11-14
>How about PIE *se, *swe "oneself"?
> Joao:
> >Is s^ > sw plausible?
>
> When dealing with loans it can be. Even more so if IE speakers
> didn't have a sound corresponding to *s^, which they don't
> seem to have despite Gam&Iv's brilliant idea. In English, the
> "sh" sound is automatically accompanied with labial rounding.
> If the Semitic language IE borrowed from was similar, the
> interpretation of *s^ as IE *sw is indeed a plausible one.
>