Reconstruction talk:Proto-Celtic/towissākos

Curiosity

@Anglom Have you noticed that Breton seems to have fortition w > gw but Welsh doesn't? It seems as if the word was still segmentable in dialectal Brythonic times, in Welsh the word was treated phonologically as one whole while in Breton the prefix remained separate, treating the w- as the start of a word. —CodeCat 22:42, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

Early Brythonic orthography isn't very consistent. Old Breton (and Cornish) spell /w/ as <gu> occasionally, even where we know it was definitely /w/, as in Old Breton petguar = /pedwar/. Anglom (talk) 23:00, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

That seems almost like Old French, except there the pronunciation really had a /g/.