Proto-Romance **w (was: Existence of PIE)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>> fournet.arnaud <fournet.arnaud@> wrote:
>>> 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.

Richard Wordingham wrote (and Arnaud added '***'):

>> ***The point is that it may be possible to project these words***
>> Proto-Romance,

>> but such a projection would be wrong, possibly by
>> virtue of the history above, possibly by their adoption into late
>> Latin being too late for Proto-Romance.

> No it may not.
> How do you create an acceptable proto-Romance form for
> Italian [gw-erra]
> and French guerre [ger] ?

What's wrong with Torsten's simple suggestion of *werra?

Richard.