Re: PIE *gW > Germanic *p

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

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> Sihler mentions Germanic *ska:p- "sheep" vs. Skt.(?) 'chaga' "goat" as
> a example of PIE *gW > Germanic *p. Bur the word is West Germanic
> only, and the Nordwestblock territory is sheep country. Perhaps all
> PIE *gW > Germanic *p are substrate loans and skewing the picture thus?

Could there have been a proto-Germanic dialect where *gW > p, and *gWH

> b ? Something similar in relations like P and Q Celtic or

Osco-Umbrian and Falisco-Latin.