Rom. fost

> I would say that we have to deal with 'an external PIE kW-Ring' (q-
> Celtic, q-Italic, great part of Germany, Western Balkans (proto-
> Albanian) ring that is placed more or less half-around 'an inner PIE
> p-Ring' (p-Celtic, p-Italic, Nord Balkans (Romanian-Substratum),
> Greece, Baltic, Indo-Arian...)),

Talking of Romanian, the word 'fost' "been" is curious. It cant be
Latin since Latin has no ppp. for 'sum', and can't be newly
constructed from Latin fu-; the -st- points to a language with -dh +
t- > -st-, where Latin (Germanic, Celtic) has > -ss-.


Torsten