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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-06-23 20:24, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> It's /bibere/ (short /i/), of course from *píbe/o- < *pí-ph3-e/o-. The
> assimilation here may have been motivated by some kind of lingering
> awareness that the stem was originally reduplicated.
>
> Piotr

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Why not /p/ is not voiced from laryngeal *H3. I found this voicing
very common, as I have written before, as well in Albanian.

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