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

From: tgpedersen
Message: 45168
Date: 2006-06-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...>
wrote:
>
> I seem to remember Trask saying /nb/ > /m/ as in senbe > seme
> Is that correct?

That Aquitanian > Basque transition increases my suspicion that a
loaned prenasalised b, /Mb/ would end up as /m/ in Basque.


Torsten