Re: PIE *gW > Germanic *p

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "etherman23" <etherman23@...>
wrote:

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> --- 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.

Kuhn points out that there are p- and q- words in Germanic (Germ.
Luft, Dutch lucht) which he thinks is indicative that the Italic
speakers came from somewhere in Western Germany.

BTW Sihler's examples include 'wolf', 'kill' and 'sheep' by
coincidence.

And the Proto-Germanic should be *ske:p-


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