Dr. C.S. Lewis-Barrie, Ph.D.

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Source Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰībʰ- in Grimm's Law.
Source Tocharian kip, kwípe in Grimm's Law.
Rewrite etymology of Wife using Oxford sources.

Venetic

But another set of 'isoglosses' connects Venetic with Germanic. Perhaps most striking is the fact that the accusative singular of the first personal pronoun has acquired a gutteral consonant from the nominative: thus eχo, meχo ＝ Goth. ik, mik (also Hittite uk, ammuk). The pronoun of identity also shows a close resemblence in both languages: Ven. sselboi sselboi ＝ 'sibi ipsi'; cf. OHG. der selb selbo. In the vocabulary, too, there is an important point of resemblence: if a•hsu is correctly interpreted as 'Herma', then it may well be cognate with the Germanic ansu- 'divinity'. That the Veneti were once in close geographical proximity to the Germans is suggested by the mention of Venedi by ancient authorities in the region of the Vistula.

– Leonard Palmer, The Latin Language, pp42-43

English	Gothic	Venetic	Hittite
I	ik	eχo	uk
me	mik	meχo	ammuk

Sources

Adams, Douglas Q. (1999), A Dictionary of Tocharian B, Amsterdam: Rodopi, ISBN 9042004355.

Germanic Philology

Bodmer, Frederick, The Loom of Language, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN 039330034X.

Green, Dennis, Language and History in the Early Germanic World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521794234.

Harbert, Wayne, The Germanic Languages, Cambridge Language Surveys, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521015111.

Hawkins, John, "Germanic Languages", in Comrie, Bernard (ed.), The World's Major Languages, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195065115

König, Ekkehard; Johan, Van Der Auwera, The Germanic Languages, Routledge Language Family Descriptions, London: Routledge, ISBN 0415280796{{citation}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link).

Nielsen, Hans, The Germanic Languages: Origins and Early Dialectal Interrelations, Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, ISBN 0817304231.

Ringe, Don, From Proto-Indo_European to Proto-Germanic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 019928413X.

Robinson, Orrin, Old English and Its Closest Relatives: A Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages, Stanford: Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804722218.

Italic Philology

Bodmer, Frederick, The Loom of Language, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, ISBN 039330034X.

Coleman, R.G.G., "Latin and the Italic Languages", in Comrie, Bernard (ed.), The World's Major Languages, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195065115.

Hemp, Eric (1959), "Venetic Isoglosses", The American Journal of Philology, vol. 80, no. 2, The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. 179–184.

Palmer, Leonard, The Latin Language, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 080612136X.

Vincent, Nigel, "Italian", in Comrie, Bernard (ed.), The World's Major Languages, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195065115.

Vincent, Nigel, "Italian", in Vincent, Nigel (ed.), The Romance Languages, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195208293.

Vincent, Nigel, "Latin", in Vincent, Nigel (ed.), The Romance Languages, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195208293.

Stuart-Smith, Jane, Phonetics and Philology: Sound Change in Italic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199257736

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