From: tgpedersen
Message: 328
Date: 2003-02-03
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> Subject: [Nostratica] Re: Cardinal and Ordinal Integers
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> > Her's another idea. The kW- of the "wheel" word is untypical of
> > the "turn, bend" words I've mentioned in another posting. Suppose
> > word was borrowed first in an IA language as *kekl- (> c^akr-),then
> > borrowed into Western IE as *kWekWl- (cf the Irish "cadraig"loans:
> > Irish p- corresponding to Latin c- since it was borrowed throughour /kW/")? You got the Irish example wrong: it was Lat. p- that was
> > Welsh, and "their p is our k").
> >
> > Torsten
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> Any other cases of spontaneous labialisation ("their /c^/ or /k/ is
>You're right, of course. Blunder.
> Piotr