Re: Octha or Ohta?

W dniu 2012-02-10 22:41, dgkilday57 pisze:

>
> According to Buck (OUG sec. 118), the change *sr > *fr (whence Latin
> fr-, -br- as in <fri:gus>, <fu:nebris>, etc.) "belongs doubtless to the
> Italic period". This makes it difficult to derive Lat. <vernus> from a
> protoform *wesri-no-. One would expect *wesrino- > Proto-Italic
> *wefrino- > Proto-Latin *webrino- > *webr.no- > *weberno- > Lat. *vebernus.

Thanks for pointing this out! It shows that no matter how many times one
reads one's own stuff before publication, obvious blunders are sure to
sneak in. The article is in press and it may be too late to add the
correction, but given the length of the publication cycle, I'll give it
a try.

Piotr