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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> I've seen Welsh words beginning with ll- & l-. Are the
> l- words all of foreign origin?
Yes, possibly with rare exceptions. The rare exceptions would be
words that have recently shed their first syllable (e.g. _lodes_ from
_herlodes_?) and just possibly some gramatically isolated soft
mutations, but there don't seem to be any of the latter.
Richard.