*gwh in Gmc.

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Thu Jan 25 17:42:52 UTC 2001


On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:04:06 -0000, "Douglas G Kilday"
<acnasvers at hotmail.com> wrote:

>I still think *pempwe is a better fit for Early PIE. Otherwise the Germanic
>forms require an ad-hoc assimilation of *p__kw__ to *p__p__ mirroring the
>Italo-Celtic assimilation to *kw__kw__. But if this happened, why wasn't
>*perkw- affected (Lat. quercus, OE fyrh, OHG forha)? We don't have
>*firf-trees.

>Is there any objection to *-kwe coming from *-pwe? Does this enclitic appear
>in Hittite?

If we assume, as is reasonable, that it's the same suffix: Hitt.
kuiski "whosoever", Goth. hwaz-uh/hwo:-h/hwa-h, Lat. quisque.

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