"nightmare"

[Anton Sherwood]

Larry Trask wrote:
> A Latin noun is normally borrowed into Basque in its accusative
> singular form.  Assuming that the accusative of <incubus> would
> have been <incubum>, the expected Basque treatment of this would
> be *<ingubu>, without nasalization, or *<ingumu>, with nasalization.
> But I don't know what inflectional class <incubus> belonged to.

Regular 2m (thus <incubum>) according to Lewis & Short.

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