Re: Germanic KW

> > But *gWhe/ormo+ > warm seems certain, especially
> > since *gWh>gW>w in other positions, also.
>
> One funny thing about PGmc. labiovelars is that they tend to lose
> their labiality next to root-internal apophonic *o, as in *gWolbHo-
> *kalBa-, *dHogWHo- > *ðaGa- or *kWol(h1)so- > *xalsa-. That doesn't
> seem to work with *warma-, so perhaps it reflects *gWHermo- (as in
> Gk., Arm. and Alb.) with a coloured vowel. Unfortunately, there are
> too few secure examples to see what really happened to initial *gWH
> and velar + *w combinations in Germanic. I like derivations like
> *g^Hwer- > *Ber-an- on some days but hate them on others.

How about this:
OHG garo,
MHG gar, garwer
ON go,rr "prepared, complete"

< PGerm. *gar-wa ("cooked"), ppp in -wo of *gWHer- "warm" v.

(whence *garw-jan > ON ger(v)jan, Da. gøre "do")


Difficult to get around without allowing for dialectal development.


Torsten