Re: Oedipus ( > NordWestBlock)

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

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
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> I have a question about NWB :
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> What are the expected reflexes of *g/gw / *k/kw / *gh/ghw ?
> (assuming NWB does not require to separate *g from *g^)
>
> Arnaud

AFAIK the only instances from which we might deduce either way between
kW > p or preservation are those we discussed already
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48486
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48419
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48456
vs. preserved kW in Sequana > Seine, that is, if they were Belgic, and
if Belgic was NWBlock (the three-man-book is called 'Völker zwischen
Kelten und Germanen', peoples in the plural).

Come to think of it, the *kWatl- "smash" root I proposed for Venetic
is real, (Baltic) Venetic would preserve *kW unlike NWBlock (= 'West
Venetic'?).

Big question mark.


Torsten