Re: Six, -ts- > -ks-

But I

> >think life would be easier for Vennemann's reconstruction

*kamuntz if

> >it were *kamunks.
>
> Well, it isn't. Basque -tz is merely the word-final variant
> of -s. I see no real difficulty in imagining that this
> fortis final -S (-ss, -ts) wound up in Latin as -x in words
> such as camox (I don't think the word was borrowed directly
> from Basque anyway).
>

Out of curiosity: which path do you think it took, and was there
a /k/ involved on the way?

Torsten