Re: [tied] Re: Oven [was: Germanic consonants]

On 2006-09-19 16:56, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>> Elsewhere he gives a
>> few more examples, e.g WGmc. *hufra- 'hump' (OHG hofar) from *xuxra-
>> (related to *xaux- 'high', according to him).
>
> Not very probable in view of Lith. kuprà (4,2), Latv. kuprs 'hump',
> unless they are borrowed from Germanic, which I see no reason to
> assume.

Most of the example found by Voyles are rather insecure -- that's the
whole problem with the proposed rule. I think *uxna- ~ WGmc. *ufna-,
*uGna- is the only really solid case, but, as I wrote earlier, it may be
due to pre-Germanic variation of *kW ~ *p in a word with initial *w, as
in *wulfa- ~ *wulGi:-.

Piotr