Re: k(w)->p

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Didn't all the simple stops become fricatives from IE to Old Gothic? And
> the voiceless stops of Gothic come from the aspirated stops of IE?
I don't know about that, but in the other Germanic languages there was,
according to the traditional reconstruction

dh -> d [voiced aspirate to voiced stop]
d -> t
t -> þ (thorn)

In the Glottalic Reconstruction, those are

d -> d
t' -> t [ejective to plain voiceless stop]
t -> þ (thorn)

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