Re: Non-correspondence of voiceless stops in several IE languages

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G&P@...> wrote:

>
> Yes: the rule is that the sequence *p...qu" was changed to "qu...qu"

in

> Italic and Celtic.
> Several words show this, e.g
> *pekW "cook" appears as Latin coquo
> *perkWu- "oak" gives Latin quercus.
> *ponkWu "all" gives Latin cunctus (if we are interpreting Hittite

pankus

> "all" correctly)
>
> Peter

Thank you, Peter. What about the change of kw to t in Greek and Slavic
(Greek pente, Slavic pet''). Any ideas?