Re: [tied] PIE wlkWos, Italo-Celtic

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 41643
Date: 2005-10-28

Oh, of course!
And my own surname Lopes, patronymic of Lopo, as
Spanish Lope < Catalan Llop < Lupus.

Joao SL
--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
escreveu:


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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


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