*gwh in Gmc.

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

In Collinge's "The Laws of Indo-European", under "Siever's Law II"
(i.e. the development of PIE *gwh), reference is made to a work by
Seebold 1967 ("Die Vertretung idg. *gwh- in Germanischen", KZ
81.104-133).  In Collinge's summary table, it is stated that "*/gwh/"
gives /b/ in initial position (except before /u/).  What is this
about?  Pokorny doesn't seem to recognize this development, and the
only root with initial *gwh- that I found in Pokorny and that I was
able to link to initial *b- in Germanic would be *gwhedh- "bitten,
begehren".  (I thought if anybody here knows, I might spare myself the
inconvenience of getting hold of the appropiate issue of Kuhn's
Zeitschrift ...)

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl