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

> But the Celtic & Italic changes occur in a more specific environment
> than that and there's also an opposite rule:
>
> p() > kW / _V/G/C+syl [] kW
> kW > p / p() [] _V/G/C+syl
>
> so prope but proximus not *kWrokWe or *propsimus.

Interesting how in their choice of alternatives the Romans tended to
avoid words with mixed contents of p and kW.


Torsten