name for a lime kiln

Michael McCafferty mmccaffe at indiana.edu
Sun Mar 17 22:33:11 UTC 2013


Yes. :-)

Quoting Frances Karttunen <karttu at comcast.net>:

>
> On Mar 17, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Michael McCafferty wrote:
>
>> (It would be very odd for xihuitl to be reanalyzed as *xiuhtl
>> because of those two consonants /h/ and /tl/ coming up against each
>> other. A reanalysis would much more likely result in *xiuhtli.)
>
>
> Not that it makes any difference in the big picture, but there is no
> glottal stop implied by the spelling xiuhtl.  The uh would stand for
> [w].
>
> Fran Karttunen
>
>



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