Re: g^H: an older suffix in PIE adjectives?

At 9:54:20 PM on Friday, July 11, 2008, david_russell_watson
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette"
> <anjarrette@...> wrote:

[...]

>> Just wanted to point out that Lehmann says two things
>> that appear to be wrong. [...]

>> 2. He claims that in Gmc PIE *kW lost its labial element
>> before PIE *o. What about Gmc *hwat "what", from PIE
>> *kWod?

Not to mention quite a few other pronominals, e.g.,
*hWaþeraz < *kWóteros 'which (of two)?'.

> Well I don't know anything about Germanic, I fear, so
> I can't know what to make of this one. It does look
> like an important, and surprising, defect in Lehmann's
> understanding of things, if it can't be explained.

> Is Lehmann the only one to claim this loss before *o.

Ringe (From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic) doesn't
mention it; he does note delabialization next to *u and
before *t (PGmc *naht- < *nókWt-).

Brian