non-IE/Germanic/f

[Larry Trask]

On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Rick Mc Callister wrote:

> flise, vlise "stone slab, floor-stone" [MLG] > Fliese "floor-stone, paving
> tile"
> [< ?Vasconic] [Vennemann considers it "weak"] [tv97]

I'm not surprised.  Pre-Basque had no */f/; it had no word-initial */p/;
and it had no word-initial consonant clusters.

Larry Trask
COGS
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk