On 2008-12-03 10:30, Arnaud Fournet wrote:
> ne oukwi can become n- ouki ?
> kwi > ki instead of pi ?
Instead of <ti>, actually (before a front vowel). The delabialisation of
*kW after *u/w in a fixed compound (as in boukolos < *gWou-kWolh1o-) is
regular.
> (h)aud is "not"
> I thought the h was just a graphic adornment.
No, it's always there. The word is consistently <haud, haut> (very
occasionally <hau> before a consonant in early Latin), not *<(h)aud>.
Whatever its etymology, it's clear that both here and in the case of Gk.
<ouk(í)> the "true" negator was deleted and the surviving element is an
original emphatic particle (like French <pas> or English <not>).
Piotr