Pre-Basque phonology (part 2)

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Sun Sep 26 19:21:12 UTC 1999


Larry Trask <larryt at cogs.susx.ac.uk> wrote:

>Anyway, a sequence *<be> > *<bhe> > <behe> is not something I've ever
>seen before in any language.

Turning this around, the -be ~ -pe alternation (and similar
cases, maybe even <ke> "smoke") might stem from -behe > -bhe > -pe.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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