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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> 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
I'm not quite sure what you mean, but I think I agree.
It's been suggested before that akWa/apa was of non-IE
origin.
The subject of Paemani/Caemani becomes relevant here
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/47754
if this word is related to the whole akWa/apa-complex, the
existence of its two variants becomes understandable, and
it becomes permissible to compare with Greek poime:n
"shepherd" (or originally "man from the meadow"?) if
that word is seen as derived from a pre-PIE root with
variant kW/p, which would also explain the curious
fact that Welsh, a p-Celtic language, has pawr "meadow,
"pasture", pori "graze"; the p- must then be from the
kW-variant. Note also the aberrant b- in the Greek
forms.
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/HbHpHg.html
The medieval term 'pagus Falmenna' for the present
Famenne, I think, must be a Schreibfehler for *Faemenna, cf
http://www.bloggen.be/julius_caesar_in_belgie/archief.php?ID=93
Torsten