Re: A loose thought on present n-infix, ablaut

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

>
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:56:56 +0000, tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >BTW I can't access my copy of Trask; do you recall whether there is
> >other evidence (eg. internal) of the Basque *b- > m-, other than

the

> >supposed loans from Latin?
>
> b..n.. > m..0.. is completely regular. Since pre-Basque,
> ca. 2000 years ago, had no phoneme /m/, all cases of modern
> Basque words containing /m/ are recent: either through
> regular phonetic development of /b/, borrowings from
> Latin/Romance, or newly-created expressive formations.

Erh, yes, but what is the evidence that it had no *m? Aquitanian?

Torsten