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

From: P&G
Message: 48563
Date: 2007-05-14

?>> Latin get /d/ > /l/ from Etruscan?
>> 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'

You will need to explain that to me.
How does Latin quattuor show any change of d > l ?

Peter