Reconstruction talk:Proto-Celtic/makʷos

map/mab

Why Brythonic mab, as PIE Q (kw) yields Bryth. P?--157.92.4.4 22:07, 14 December 2015 (UTC)

Because in Brythonic, /p/ undergoes lenition (soft mutation) to /b/ after a vowel. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 06:47, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

it seems not to account for Old and Middle Welsh, nor for Old Breton, so why should it account for Brythonic?--Manfariel (talk) 16:36, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

In Old and Middle Welsh, and maybe Old Breton too, p was a way of spelling /b/ after a vowel. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 18:13, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

makʷkʷos in Germanic

Once in a book about Germanic linguistic I saw with awe maGGum as Norse accusative for sonr (son)!--Manfariel (talk) 16:44, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

@Manfariel: See *maguz (“boy, relative, son”), which is unrelated. However, -um is the ending of the dative plural, not the accusative, and the double-consonant spelling is odd. Maybe you mean Proto-Norse ᛗᚨᚷᚢ (magu) and misremember it. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 19:06, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

You are so right. Just now I have found the piece of paper where I wrote it down: "magu: accusative of sunuR". Both Norse words in runes, and the transliteration of magu has a barred G.--Manfariel (talk) 22:57, 17 December 2017 (UTC)