Re: [tied] Re: The role of analogy, alliteration and sandhi in coun

Miguel Carresquer talked about luft/lucht a while
back, maybe he can add some wisdom.
But what I'm getting from the exchange is that kw/p
alternations, like k/s are in the DNA of Western IE


--- stlatos <stlatos@...> wrote:

> --- 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).
>
>
>

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