Re: Existence of PIE

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

>
> How do you create an acceptable proto-Romance form for
> > Italian [gw-erra]
> > and French guerre [ger] ?
> How about *werra? Isn't that how you told us your grandfather would
> pronounce it?
> Torsten
> ========
> Tsalam? t?ob
>
> My grand-father had :
> vep out of wespa
> so
> werra should be **vierre not guerre
> Cf. terra > tierre
> in this northern dialect.
>
> Arnaud
> ============

So your great-grand-father had wep, or?
I don't think we > wye in any language.

BTW veklu > vieux, so ve(s)p- > **vie(s)p-? Not so, so there must have
been two v-sounds: v and w, in Western Romance.


Torsten