Richard Wordingham schrieb:
> 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.
>
I guess I said once that in Romanian, even today is a habbit of use
alternative the group "pi" with "chi" or of the group "ghi" in
alternance with "bi/vi" in the same word. In the literary language
something like this is hardly prohibited but the people speak stil
that way.
some examples for pi/ki:
foot = pic^or/kic^ior,
breast=piept/kiept
for ghi/bi
bufallo= bivol/givol
life =giatsã/viatsa
If I remember correct, beside the same change (Latin kW >p > b,
gW >b) Sardinian has too a strange habbit, the one of changing the
Latin "ll" in a kind of "d". But this change it is know to have
worked for Latin other way around where "d" > "l" as in Sabinic
"*dacruma(?) > Latin "lacrima". Pretty strange for a such "change
to original form.
Alex