Re: [tied] Re: The role of analogy, alliteration and sandhi in coun

Why did Slavic choose kw for 4 but p for 5?
--- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> --- In 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
>
>
>

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