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[Michael McCafferty]

I meant to say "accidental homophony" not "accidental harmony".

> :-)

Quoting Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>:

> Does anyone know how cihtli 'hare' and cihtli 'grandmother' became
> homophones? Is this a case of accidental harmony owing to sound
> changes. I notice in Karttunen's dictionary that there is a dialectal
> term for  'grandmother' in the form ciztli.
>
> tlazohcamati,
>
> Michael
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