Re[2]: [tied] IE *p and *b

At 11:35:37 AM on Sunday, December 9, 2007, Piotr
Gasiorowski wrote:

> On 2007-12-09 16:56, meska_jd wrote:

>> Yet, I am right. In Irish there is no *sp-, change to
>> *sw- has happened before Common Celtic has splitted into
>> Irish and other languages. So if we speak about Irish not
>> about IE from which Common Celtic has developed, then my
>> statement is correct.

> I'd question that. Schrijver reconstructs the PCelt.
> cluster as *sP-, and McCone as *sp- (later changing to
> *sb-).

Matasovic apparently makes it *sf-, since he gives PCelt.
*sfera: 'heel' (< *sprh1-o-).

Brian