Reconstruction talk:Proto-Celtic/yowankos

Vowel quality

@Angr, Anglom There's no -o- in the PIE word, so should *yuwankos be reconstructed instead? —CodeCat 22:55, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

I'll check in Matasovic when I get home. It's possible -uwa- > -owa- happened already before the end of Proto-Celtic. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 09:02, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

@CodeCat Matasović reconstructs it with yow- and says the change of u > o / _ w is regular in Celtic. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 19:49, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

@Angr I wonder if there are any parallels. —CodeCat 19:51, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

The one he mentions is *súpnos > *suwnos > *sownos > súan (“sleep”). —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 19:58, 14 September 2016 (UTC)