Re: The role of analogy, alliteration and sandhi in counting

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> The point being that the PIE root *pag-/*pak- root should be instead
> *(a)kWag-/pag-/pak-, a derivative of the *akWa-/apa- root, the kW/p
> alternation being of the same pre-PIE origin, cf that that alternation
> exists within Celtic, Italic and Germanic (German Luft / Dutch lucht).

That's a specifically Dutch change. Are you talking about how it
appears KW > P in some Germanic words (wolf, sheep)? Either way I
don't think it has to do with PIE. Italic has two branches in which
KW > P or KW > Kw (with complications).