Re: Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

That's also a very plausible explanation. Numbers frequently see such analogical developments.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" wrote:
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> Assimilations and dissimilations are usual, don't forget Romance *cincu instead of Latin quinque. Maybe the F- in four (*fedwar) was result of assimilation to the F- in five (*finfi) in the recited sequence 4,5, ....
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> There are a few words where Pre-Proto-Germanic has *p instead of the expected *kW. The number five springs to mind immediately. Most, if not all, can be explained either through assimilation (four) or dissimilation (five). I suppose there could have been a P-Germanic adstrate that disappeared but a handful of words is a mighty thin nail to hang that coat on.
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister wrote:
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> > Germanic fimf would either be a result of **pempe or a borrowing from either P-Celtic or P-Italic or P-whatever, wouldn't it? Because we ain't got no P-Germanic or at least one I ever heard of.
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> > Subject: Re: [tied] Italo-Celtic dialect base words?
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> > Date: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 12:19 PM
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> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" wrote:
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> > > If Italo-Celtic really existed as a "language", there would be *kWenke
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> > I don't think "Italo-Celtic" actually existed, except for some lexical
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> > *penkWe '5' > *kWenkWe > P-Celtic *penpe and Germanic *finfi.
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