Re: Italo-Celtic dialect base words?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <sean@...> wrote:

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> That would likely mean orig. m (as shown by m, > w, > u in puxDa-) not n ; the presence of m in most high # (or, as it could be analyzed, otherwise unclear NC in '5', m/n in '9') would make it likely part of the IE plural (with met. sometimes, like in nasal present verbs).
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To clarify some things, I'm sure 'fist' wasn't borrowed, but native; but IE had mkW anyway.

> I already did that for f (and others) years ago. The important thing for this question if f- in '5'.
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That is, the rec. DOES show f-, but if I'm right '5' actually req. XYaf- (with op. XY > sY > s^ or > hY > ?Y > ? > 0), but 'fist' could have XYaf- or f-, and I know they're from the same C- and ety.

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> I rec. something like:
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> * qW'XWwimkW'xWwiXYa > * fimk'wi?a
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> which doesn't help in answering exactly what f was (f / F / pF / pXW ??) since XW and others could change opt., with many options in clusters.
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