*gwh in Gmc.

[Xavier Delamarre]

le 5/12/00 21:57, petegray à petegray at btinternet.com a écrit :

> XD said
>> I find the law very convincing... (that IE *ghw- becomes b- in Germanic and
>> w- in Gaulish)

> Please give examples, other than the contested "bane" and the isolated
> "bitten".    The semantic connection of bdhen with *gwhre: seems a little
> odd - but perhaps that is a failing in my German.  I believe one means "to
> toast" and the other "to sense, feel".

> Peter

I unfortunately can not help you : having moved recently all my linguistic
library (excepted celtology) is in boxes in the cellar. But I remember that
I was very convinced by his KZ article where you have to go and also to
browse his two dictionaries (Starke Verben & EWdS).

Other examples taken from Watkins' Dictionary of IE Roots :

*gwher- 'heat, warm' > *gwhr(n)- : brennen, brand

*gwhre:- 'to smell, breathe' : Germanic *bre:thaz, Eng. breathe etc.

I do not know what are the positions of Bammesberger and Meid on this
subject.

XD