From: tgpedersen
Message: 48601
Date: 2007-05-15
>How do you account for the o of OIr coic, Welsh pump?
> On 2007-05-15 07:15, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>
> > On 2007-05-15 00:44, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> >
> >> p-Celtic *pempe
> >> pre-Germanic *pempe
> >> p-Italic *pVmpe very probable *pempe too..
> >>
> >> I mean this is quite enough to postulate : Dialectal PIE *pempe
> >
> > Of course it isn't, and nobody to my knowledge has postulated any
> > such thing. Regular and independently confirmed sound changes
> > account for Gallo-Brittonic and Sabellic *pempe, so no arbitrary
> > "dialectal variant" is needed for them.
>
> P.S. Even better than that, Proto-Italic *kWenkWe (as opposed to
> "dialectal PIE *pempe") explains *pompe (the actual P-Italic form):
> the change of accented *kWe > *kWo in Sabellic was earlier than *kW
> > p.