Re: [tied] Latin is a q-Dialect having p- from kW , PIE is simil

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 48603
Date: 2007-05-16

On 2007-05-15 22:31, tgpedersen wrote:

> How do you account for the o of OIr coic, Welsh pump?

What "o"? PBrit. *pempe > OWel. pimp > MWel. pymp (before /m/) >
Mod.Wel. pum(p), where, by the way, the pronunciation of <u> is _not_
/u/ but /I/ (cf. Bret. pemp, Cor. pymp, Gaul. pinpe-).

Piotr