Re: [tied] Re: *(H-)p/bh[-r/l-] again again

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 29427
Date: 2004-01-12

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:33:10 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

>Have any of the Basque roots using this assumed /r/-containing
>collective suffix been suggested as loan words into Basque?

Not to my knowledge. They are mostly basic vocabulary without any known
outside connections.

It's possible that ilar (irar ~ idar) "pea(s)" is a borrowing from
Indo-European *p(e)it- "food, pea", with addition of the -arr collective
suffix (*pit-arr > idarr ~ irarr > ilarr).


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