From: tgpedersen
Message: 51947
Date: 2008-01-27
> Guerre with -g- is a Parisian French-made word out of FrankishAha. So Romance *-w- > Fr. -v-, and > It. -gw-
> werra.
> Guerra with -g- is an Italian inherited word from Longobardic
> self-made guerra.
>
> Compare :
> Trève "truce" a Frankish word. Intervocal -w- never become -g- in
> French.
> Tregua an Italian inherited word from Longobardic self-made tregua.
> Longobardic turns -w- into *-gw- in all positions (Cf. Norse)
> Both from *triwwa.
>
> Romance has nothing to do with all this in the first place.
>