ekWos > Greek hippos (was: Evening/Night *wekwer-o-)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:
>
> > That explains *(h)ékWos > híppos, because the */kW/

phoneme

> > precedes a back vowel (*/o/). It also explains e.g. *kWis
>
> > tis 'who'.
>
> Correction: the IE form does *not* have a true labiovelar

in 'horse',

> but rather a cluster /kw/. So the correct form is *(h)ékwos.
> However, /Kw/ and /KW/ (where 'K' stands for any member of the

velar

> series) had come to be treated as the same before the classical

Greek

> dialects.

Piotr's chided me in the past for making this claim, but I can't
find the relevant post in the archives - it's not in my index. I
recall that he pointed out that:

a) k^w and kW have distinct reflexes in Greek.
b) -k^w- > -pp- is regular in Greek.

I think he gave some other examples, but alas I don't remember them.

Richard.