Re: [tied] Re: The role of analogy, alliteration and sandhi in coun

Richard:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "petusek" <petusek@...> wrote:
> > Gothic fidwhor: kW > xW > F (it doesn't matter if /F/ was a
> bilabial or
> > labiodental consonant, I guess. The developement is clear, though)
>
> Except of course that kW > p > f is also possible - I'm not sure how
> we tell which. pW > p > f is even more appealing, but depends on
> Afro-Asiatic evidence.
>
> Richard.

Oh yes, sure, this is equally (?) possible, and, as for your pW > p > f
suggestion, I think there might've been pW > pF (bilabial affricate) > f
(instead of /p/), or even a direct pW > F/f there, but we have many more
possibilities, don't we? :-) Afroasiatic (or other Nostratic) evidence is,
of course, of a decisive value.

Petusek