Celtic p's & q's [was Re: Horthmen as 'mGall']

Rick Mc Callister rmccalli at sunmuw1.MUW.Edu
Fri Sep 10 22:06:54 UTC 1999


	So why don't we count
"one two three *whour *whim/*whigh" in English
"eins zwei drei *wier wum/*wunch" in German
	Or conversely, why don't we suffer from feartburn and feartbreak in
English?

[snip]

>Note that the Germanic evidence (Gothic _fimf_ etc.) has been argued as
>showing
>a *k{^w}e > *p development similar to that in p-Celtic and p-Italic, whether
>from *penk{^w}e or from *k{^w}enk{^w}e; it has also been argued that the
>second
>*p is due to the influence of the first, that is, the reverse of the Latin and
>Celtic development.

>								Rich Alderson

Rick Mc Callister
W-1634
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus MS 39701



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