[SPAM] Re: [tied] Re: Pre-Germanic p

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G.and.P@...> wrote:

>
> >Did Latin get /d/ > /l/ from Etruscan? I seem to
> >remember Etruscan Ulixe for Odysseus. Correct me on
> >this. If not, it must have happen very shortly before
> >the classical stage
>
> The change occurs in a few isolated words. As Sihler says, "the data

are

> characteristic of dialect borrowing".

'four' is not one of 'some few isolated words'

Is one of the first 50 words of a language...

Marius