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

At 11:59:55 AM on Sunday, December 9, 2007, Piotr
Gasiorowski wrote:

> On 2007-12-09 17:49, Brian M. Scott wrote:

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

> Yes, but on the "Description" page of the online
> dictionary he says: "It may have been a bilabial voiceless
> fricative [P] phonetically, rather than a labiodental
> fricative [f]."

I had a vague memory of that, but the page wouldn't come up
for me just now. (In any case I mentioned it only to point
to another example of a reconstruction that clearly puts the
further development to *sw- later than PCelt.)

Brian