Re[2]: [tied] Existence of PIE

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 52018
Date: 2008-01-28

At 1:40:07 PM on Monday, January 28, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:


> 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.

Latin /w/ had already become /B/ by the time the Gmc. word
was borrowed; Gmc. /w-/ hardened to OFr /gw-/, while LLat.
/B/ > OFr /v/.

Brian