Re: [tied] russian vor [was: IE thematic presents and the origin of

> Also, Byzantine Greek <pH> /f/ would not have been replaced by Slavic

*v

> in a loan. The normal substitute for such a sound was /p/ in the

oldest

> layer of borrowings, and then /f/ as the Slavic languages acquired

such

> a phoneme.

As long as one insists that Gk. phor, Lat. fur is from PIE *bher-
solutions where they are wanderwords of other derivation can't be
entertained.


Torsten