Re: Scientist's etymology vs. scientific etymology

> I agree with Mr. Kilday on this one: there are enough Latin words
> that preserved original *o after labials that suggest to me that
> this law is not true -- cf. <monile> "necklace", <mons> "mountain",
> <mox> "soon", <pons> "bridge", <potis> "able", <post> "after",
> <podager> "suffering from sore feet", <fodere> "to dig", and perhaps
> <fons> "spring".

Latin 'coast words' tend to have *a, cf the Kuhn quote
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/30032
A scenario where Proto-Latin in Central Europe had an 'a-language'
(one in which PPIE *a didn't become *e/o/zero or which reverted to *a
like IIr) between itself and the coast would explain that.


Torsten