Re: VMs: Has anyone been down this route before?

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> Which brings us back to Aschaffenburg. The -aph-
> was pointed out by Bernd Neuner as being rather
> common in names of waters. I presume that
> this does not come from Romanian, but followed
> a parallel change to the Romanian one.
>
> Quite interesting, since p-Celtic and q-Celtic
> differ from each other in precisely this
> way, and this would have happened quite
> independently, would it not?

I think Indo-Europeanists mostly agree that *kw > p is independent in
Celtic and in the Latin group.  It also occurs in Greek.  It's a pretty
common change world wide, actually.

I wonder if the Aschaff- isn't essentially a Celtic placename borrowed by
later German speakers in the area.

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