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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>
> The quetion is why /p/ and /kw/ variants in the SAME
> language as you see in Germanic and Slavic and who
> knows where else?
>
That's true. My best suggestion is that some words were borrowed from
a substrate with kW > p, cf pier/pirek "worm"
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48456
and play/Pflicht vs. the Irish examples with kW-. Water names from
NWGermany/Netherlands have the apa- variant (Enn-epe, Asch-affen-burg,
Sorpe), Scandinavia has only kW- examples.
What examples in Slavic did you have in mind? C^etyri, p'at' is the
regular development of kW-, p-.
Torsten