Pre-Greek or Para-Greek

How to explain the doublets
rhamphos "beak" / rhygkhos "nose"?
konnos "bearded chin, beard" / genys "chin"
pythmen "bootom" / pyndax "deep" (crf. pyrgos "tower" < *bHrgH-)

Words like pyndax and pyrgos show similar developments for sound aspirate+sound
aspirate > sound + sound aspirate > soundless + sound occlusive. A Para-Greek IE
development?

*bH.rg^H- > *burG- > *pyrg-o-

The pai <Rhamphos-> : <rhygkhos-> could see as *HramgWHos- : *HrungHos-, maybe
similar to lampas "light, lamp" : lygx "lynx".


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