IE 'wolf'

[Christopher Gwinn]

>         With regard to the 'wolf' thing a while back, where it was stated
> that Latin "lupus" is borrowed from a /p/-dialect of Italic, Germanic "wolf"
> and so on appear to be the expected Germanic cognates of Latin, "vulpes".
> If this is so, then unless I am missing something (a very real possibility),
> the /-p/ here is original, as Germanic /kw/ does not (to my knowledge)
> change into either /p/ before the shift or /f/ after it.

What are to make of Gaulish Louernios (*loup-ern-io), "fox," which may stem
from the same root as Indic lopasa, Avestan raopi ? These words are related
to Latin lupus in Pokorny.

-Chris Gwinn