Re: Existence of PIE

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From: tgpedersen
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Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:25 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Existence of PIE




> Guerre with -g- is a Parisian French-made word out of Frankish
> 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.
>

Aha. So Romance *-w- > Fr. -v-, and > It. -gw-
Torsten

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Tsalam? t?ob
No,
Germanic triwa > FRankish triwa : borrowed = > FREnch trève
Germanic triwa > Langobardic triggwa : borrowed = > ITalian tregua
I suppose you already know that.
Arnaud
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