Re: [tied] Re: Greek labiovelars

At 3:54:24 PM on Tuesday, March 14, 2006, Jim Rader wrote:

>>> *gWHer-; gorim (I warm) OIr; gwre:s (heat) Welsh

>> The <w> is a vowel; this is /gure:s/. Also, it may be an
>> idiosyncratic development; Pokorny gives <groez>,
>> <grouez> as the Breton cognates and refers the reader to
>> Pedersen for an explanation of the <w>.

> Actually, no. The <w> in <gwres> is consonantal, as in
> <gwraig>, "woman."

Thanks; I'd forgotten that possibility (and in any case
wouldn't have realized that it was the case here).

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Brian