Why huica rather than cuica?

[John F. Schwaller]

Now that we have established that in some dialect words such as cuica 
or cuicani become huica or huicani, can anyone give me a reasonable 
explanation why it happens?



John F. Schwaller
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SUNY Potsdam

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