Re: Pre-Germanic p

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

> 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.

The best explanation I've seen is the postulation of *pW. See
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/9530 and
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/14885 et seq.

I don't believe there is any problem in Celtic or pre-Romance Italic -
the development was pretty regular. The basic point in these
languages is that a change of the type kw > p is always possible.

Richard.