Re: [tied] Other IE language with /w/

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Dagfinn H" <captain_yossarian@...>
wrote:

>
> Slightly OT, but nevertheless: during what period of the historical
> development of Latin is it reckoned that /w/ became /v/? The common

spelling

> for both /u/ and /w/ (<v>) lingered for some time, but I acknowledge

that

> this may have been due to standardization.

Thw w-'s of Germanic loans are kept separate from the inherited v-'s
in Western Romance, at least, becoming gW- (> g- in some languages),
written gu-. That provides a terminus ante quem (late imperial times?).


Torsten