See Reconstruction talk:<span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Italic</span>/fāðlā#RFD discussion: April 2023–June 2024....
Oscan, *āpā, *<span class="searchmatch">fuɣtēr</span>, ...). To reconstruct <span class="searchmatch">Proto</span>-<span class="searchmatch">Italic</span> one should reconstruct from the bottom, i.e. with the internal evidence: the <span class="searchmatch">Italic</span> languages. These...