Re: Stacking up on standard works

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

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> > Gamkrelidze-Ivanov and Nikolayev agree in deriving vitrum from

*k´wei-t- 'light, white' (cfr. Lithuanian s^vìtra- 'sandpaper'),
with *k´w- > Latin w- as in *k´wep- > vapor.

>
> That's not kYw- but kw- (kvapas = breath/odor Lith; etc.), and

neither would be a regular change.

>

That's right. In fact, considering *gW- > Latin w-, think *k- > *g-
happened in these and other words such as glo:ria < *kleu-.

In my opinion, these and other "irregular" changes (rather frequent in
Latin) would indicate these words followed a different path than the
lexicon considered to be "inherited".