Pre-Basque phonology (fwd)

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

"Eduard Selleslagh" <edsel at glo.be> wrote:

>It always looked to me as if the specialists were at a loss to come up with a
>good IE etymology of <kapnss> (and the verb <kapnizo>, 'to smoke'). The
>relatively well-known etymologies you cite are rather difficult to defend in a
>straightforward way: among themselves, the Lithuanian, Latin and Gothic words
>are consistent with a common ascendance (root: kuep-, with long e) (even
>though Lat. vapor ought to be 'quapor'?), but <kapnss> is hard to fit into the
>series: why isn't the kv/hw/v (actually /w/) /p/ in Greek, as it should?

This root has initial ku-, which we can assume gives /k/ in Greek
(unlike labiovelar *kw and palatal + glide *k^u, which merge into
/p/, at least before /a/ and /o/).  There are no counterexamples,
as far as I know.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl