From: tgpedersen
Message: 54449
Date: 2008-03-02
> >I don't get your objection. Please explain.
> > I left out one premise, the one Kuhn also uses: PIE *b was very r
> > rare, almost non-existent. Therefore words in Germanic and toponyms
> > in its present area with /p/ almost certainly don't have a direct
> > PIE pedigree, but must have some other source, IE or non-IE.
>
> ****GK: Assuming this for the sake of argument, it
> doesn't really answer my question, since the Grimm
> shift is not involved with PIE but with whatever the
> Germanic form was before it occurred. Hence the point
> you made above is meaningless in this context.****
> >