From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 33096
Date: 2004-06-06
>Personally, if I find that the Etruscan 1ps pronoun is /mi/ (IE *me)...
>with oblique case form /mini/, demonstratives /ica/ (IE *ko-) and
>/ita/ (IE *to-), interrogative /ipa/ (IE *kWo-)
>The development of the velar series is further complicated but easy toDoes *kW give /p/ or /k/?
>understand. Delabialization of *kW, *k:W and *gW to their respective
>non-labialized counterparts is clear. So *kW merges with *k and both
>become Tyrrhenian *k (hence Etruscan /cara/ <=> IE *kWer-).