Re: [tied] Latin barba in disaccord with Grimm's Law?

How about bi:bere "to drink"

but I'm guessing there's been some assimilation from /p/ > /b/

and that it's related to Slavic pivo, piwo, etc.

Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

On 2006-06-23 15:06, Jens Elmegård Rasmussen wrote:

> A very old theory put forward by Alois Walde has it that there is a
> Grassmann-type dissimilation in Latin if a liquid intervenes. That
> takes care of examples like barba, glaber, gradior and a few others I
> don't remember at the moment.

<traho> is also one of them. They are also remarkable in that _all_ of
them contain /a/ next to the liquid; at least I'm not aware of any that
don't.

Piotr

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