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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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>
> > Looking in the archives I see that you've been answered before.
>
> I wasn't asking a question.

The word "answer" doesn't only apply to responses to questions,
though it often does.

> Obviously, a word with such a wide geographical distribution must
> belong to a language which must have mattered one way or another to
> invading IE-speakers. Since the distribution of apa and akWa names
> doesn't follow any known IE borders it must have been a substrate
> language for large parts of Europe, thus giving rise to loans of or
> preferences for p- or kW- variants later on.

But the words aren't just exactly the same only with one kind with p
and the other kW or kYw. Why the alternation with long a: if there
was no reduplication?

> > For 'river, water?' I'd say
> > that *xakYw+ with reduplicated *xaxkYw+ > *xaxpY+ (this assumes that
> > h2 = x = velar fricative).
>
> Reduplication is not productive in IE nominal morphology. It's a verb
> thing.

Most PIE nouns were formed from verbs. Anyway, I disagree that red.
is only found in verbs.