Re: [tied] Re: Rom. TâTã (breast)

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:41:33 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

>It's more a question of assimilation: if a voiceless consonant follows
>(especially a geminated one as in this case), we can expect the initial to
>vary between voiced and voiceless. I'll try to look up the details later.

We have for instance (most common form first) pace -> bake ~ pake, parcatu

> barkatu ~ parkatu, piper > piper ~ biper, corpus -> gorputz ~ khorpitz.

This also applies for original Latin voiced initials (e.g. bestia ->
piztia).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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