Re: labio-velars to labials, but reverse?

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From: Peter Christian
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:33

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In-Reply-To: <1993Jan8.002108.20583@leland.Stanford.EDU> alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson)

 
> There is (may be) more at work in Germanic than assimilations.  There are a few
> lexical items which do not show the expected development *k<w> > *x<w>, but
> rather *k<w> > *f.  Whether *k<w> > **p in some environment prior to Grimm's
> law, or afterwards *x<w> -> *f, is indeterminate.  But besides the evidence of
> "5," we have other words such as "wolf," Gothic Wulfila "Little Wolf" <
> *wlk<w>o-.

Also Latin lupus, though the Oxford Etymological Dictionary says
this is a dialect form. (I thought they *all* were!)

Peter

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Peter Christian                         
  Dept of European Languages              peter@gold.ac.uk
  Goldsmiths' College, London.            petex@cix.compulink.co.uk
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