Le Sanglais
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Tue Nov 4 20:37:48 UTC 2003
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Alan Hartley wrote:
> As with (Fr.) les Otoes >> les Sotoes >> (Eng.) Zotoes
> (and Eng. a napron >> an apron).
My favorite (French) example is unicorne (taken as un icorne) > icorne >
licorne (from l'icorne). This sort of thing happens in Siouan languages,
too. If I recall correctly, PS *waNs- (cf. OP maNaNze) > PreDa maze > Da
aze (maze taken as first person possessive). I don't recall any reverse
examples, with accretion, however, or any cases of resegmentation of a
morpheme.
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