Re: [tied] PIE wlkWos, Italo-Celtic

Joao S. Lopes wrote:

> This form is regularly present in Balto-Slavic (vilkas, vlIkU),
> Indo-Iranian (vrka, v&hrka, toponym Hyrcania) and Albanian ulk.
> In Latin and Greek it seems to there be a metathetic form: *wlkWos >
> *lukWos (lu:pus, lykos), but Greek form could be some deviant dialectal
> form, or non-Greek substratum, even as Latin that shows a deviant -p-
> for kW (Osco-Umbrian loanword?) and long u.

It was short. Apart from the metrical evidence of Classical poetry, see
the Romance development (merger with /o:/, yielding VLat. /o/, cf.
<lobo> in your own language!).

Piotr