Return of the minimal pairs (when is a morpheme not a morpheme?)

[petegray]

>> Greeks ...transcription of Latin: AKOAI
>> ...for Latin AQUAE.

> Comes from not having a [w] sound.

Greek found the same solution as French.  In both languages the vowel
written <u> is fronted, so the back /u/ is written ou.  It is this back /u/
which is used to represent the /w/ sound, as in Oualerios (Valerius) or
"oui" or Touareg /twareg/.

Peter