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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> so if IE have had not a true labiovelar in horse, Latin builded the
> labiovelar from the cluster "kw"? How that?
To my knowledge, Italic also treated both /kw/ and /kW/ the same.
The true Latin form for 'horse', however, is ecus -- equus is a later
formation (I forget the exact term for this, something like "neo-
archaism"). Cf. cum for quom, secundus for sequondos, etc.
Basically, Latin had delabialized labiovelars before back vowels.
- Rob