Pre-Germanic p

After Romanian kw > k/p 'duality' another similar and unexplained
situation is that one of "pre-germanic p" originated in PIE *kW

So we have kw/p alternance spreaded in : Celtic, Italic, Germanic,
Balkans (Romania)....as I said this duality kw/p need a 'global'
explanation.


url:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0097-8507%28196906%2945%3A2%3C243%
3AP%2FFI%2F%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage

"Abstract
For no apparent reason, Germanic may reflect a pre-Germanic /p/ where
a reflex of IE kW might be expected. The appearance of the /p/-
reflexes is sporadic, inconsistent, and wholly unpredictable. All
attempts to explain them in terms of phonologically definable
processes are flatly contradicted by the reflexes themselves. It is
suggested that the problem raised by their apparently capricious
behavior is not a matter of phonology per se. Rather, they are due
partly to borrowing (which is by nature sporadic, inconsistent, and
unpredictable), and partly to contamination."

Marius