Re: [tied] ek^wos > Greek hippos

On 05-02-06 16:22, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> 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.

The intervocalic outcome varies between -pp- or -kk-, the latter as in
<pelekkon> 'axe-handle' < *pelek^w-o-, cf. <pelekus> 'axe', or in
<ikkos> (a dialectal variant of <hippos>). -kk- is also the reflex of
*-kw- (*k + *w) as in lakkos 'pond, cistern' < *lakw-o-.

Piotr