Re: bidet

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>
> At 5:16:09 AM on Tuesday, October 30, 2012,
> Bhrihskwobhloukstroy wrote:
>
> > *paþa can (not: must) anyway have a good Germanic
> > etymology, why should a borrowing be preferred? I hope not
> > for the tale of the lack of PIE */b/, because this would
> > be a circular argument
>
> No, it wouldn't. The rarity of PIE *b is sufficiently
> well-established to carry some weight in a contest of
> competing etymologies. How much weight, of course, is a
> matter of opinion.
>

According to the glottalic model and macro-comparative data, traditional
PIE voiced stops (series II) weren't actually so but either glottalic or
plain voiceless, whereas the *real* voiced were traditional "voiced
aspirated" (series III).