Re: PIE *akWa: 'water'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
> > > <richard.wordingham@> wrote:
> >
> > >> '*h2ap reflects sporadic *kW > *p'
> >
> > > 'Sporadic'? what kind of rule is this?
> >
> > It's akin to the various assimilation rules seen in Romanian - it
> may
> > happen, it may not happen. It's also rather like the [CwO] > [CO]
> > change that has happened in English at various times, so that it

is

> > now littered with silent 'w', eg. 'sword', 'two', 'who', along

with

> > currently variable losses such as /k-/ v. /kw-/ in 'quart(er)'.
> > Another example in English is sporadic shortening - 'head' (but
> Scots
> > has regular /hi:d/), 'bread', 'good', 'flood'.
> >
> > Richard.
> >
>
> Nothing 'is sporadic' in Romanian, only some cases are not well
> explained yet, most of them due to this 'simple model':
>
> Let's try to derived them 'easily from Latin'
>
> and this 'EASYLY TO DERIVE FROM LATIN' MODEL (still asserted also

in

> this forum, by some) arrived till such monstruosities like the two
> below ones :
>
> codru < *quodrum < quadrum
> patru < quattuor
>
>
> Marius
>

You can find both at :

http://dexonline.ro/search.php?cuv=codru
http://dexonline.ro/search.php?cuv=patru

in the best dictionary that exist for Romanian today (DEX - made by
Romanian Academy)

Marius