From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 48623
Date: 2007-05-17
>*perkunia:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@>
> > wrote:
>
> > > 2. perkW- 'name of a tree' ->*perkWunyo > Proto-Celtic
> > > (attested Hercynia (Caesar), loaned with initial p- in Gothic*kWerkWus
> > > fairguni 'mountain') <-> and on the other hand: Q-Italic
> > > (Latin quercus 'oak') => so you can see as me that there is nocommon
> > > p...kW > kW ...kW*perkWunia:)
> > >
> > >
> > > Because :
> > >
> > > EITHER
> > >
> > > 1. the delabialisation in Proto-Celtic *perkWus (->
> > > happened BEFORE p..kW>kW...kW in Proto-Celtic(Latin
> > > but
> > > 2. the delabialisation kW/u > ku in Proto-Italic *perkWus
> > > quercus) happened AFTER the p..kW > kW..kW in Proto-Italicnearly
> >
> > > (The point was raised by Watkins 1966)
> >
> > Dialects that have the same rules but in different order, or
> > the same rules but with dif. sets of exceptions, etc., areperfectly
> > common.as
>
> Besides, *perk(W)-u- is an ablauting type of noun, with forms such
> *perkW-ew-es (no delabialisation). The delabialisation of *kW beforefrom
> *u is probably a common IE phenomenon (and of course Lat. has
> <quercus>, not *querquus), but the *kW may have been levelled out
> the oblique forms.This 'Genitive form - argument -' invoked 'by some' is a fake:
> The name of Hercynia probably reflects somethingits
> like *perku-h3n-ih2 (if it's a Hoffmann compound), and at any rate
> delabialised *k doesn't alternate with *kW, so an initial *kW couldBecause p..kW > kW...kW belong to dialectal PIE too...and in addition
> not be introduced as in the dendronym.
> Note that the CeltiberianYou need to prove that Querquetani is really a Proto-Celtic word.
> tribal name Querquetani _has_ initial /kW/ as expected!
>