Re: [tied] Re: *pYerkW+

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> My suggestion was that the assimilaton of *xW > *f
> took place if there
> was another labial segment in the same root. Of
> course in numerous words
> pre-Germanic *kW yields *xw, and the assimilation
> doesn't occur 100% of
> the time, e.g. *kWekWlo- 'wheel' >
> *xWexWla/*xWeGWla- >
> *xwexla-/*xWewla-/*xWeGla- (e.g. OE hweohhol ~
> hwe:ol ~ hweogol ~
> hweowol), where I would expect assimilation at least
> in some of the
> variants. However, OFris. fial proves that it did
> sometimes occur

It doesn't necessarily prove anything more than a
sporadic xw>f in some form of Old Frisian.




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