name for a lime kiln

[Frances Karttunen]

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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