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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" wrote:
>
> In my opinion the /kk/-forms (including Epidaurian _ikkos_ 'horse' and
Mycenaean _i-qo_ [(h)ikkWos]) are borrowed from Balkan Illyrian, while
_hippos_ is a more recent borrowing from Macedonian. In the
Illyro-Lusitanian group we have *-k(^)W- > *-kkW-, and specifically
*h1ek^Wo- > *(h)ikkWo-, hence Lus. _Iccona_ = Gaul. _Epona_ 'goddess
associated with horses'.
>
Actually, we've got no **-kW- but *-kw-, with /w/ (some IE-ists use an
"under-circumflex u") coming from the fonologization of an earlier /u/
before a vowel. Don't forget also the cases of Celtic *-kk- <
*-ku-/*-qu-, including *sukko- 'pig', a word whose traditional PIE
reconstruction has a "laryngeal". I call this phenomenon "Kilday's Law"
in your honor.