Reconstruction talk:Proto-Italic/denɣwā

Impossible to get the Sabellic form from a PIt *denγwa protoform

Unfortunately, it seems that de Vaan missed this in his dictionary, but the simplest way to motivate the f- of Osc fangvam, as well as the -g-, is to posit a metathesis of breathy-voicing from the *-g^h- to the initial *d-, as seen by Ringe & Eska (2013:111), where a development PIE *dn̥ǵ^hwéh₂- > *dn̥g^hwā- --> *d^hn̥gwā > fangvā-. The lemma form for this page is certainly whence the Latin form, but can't be posited as the ancestor of the Oscan forms without rigorous developmental acrobatics for this word.

Vindafarna (talk) 21:48, 12 October 2024 (UTC)