Re: dhuga:ter ('LARYNGEALS')

At 1:09:35 PM on Tuesday, March 25, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

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

>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:48:04 -0700 (PDT), Rick McCallister
>> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:

>>>I agree moko can't be the original form but is there a
>>>*boko or something like that?

>> There is Roncalese boxo "muzzle for calfs".

>> A development b- > m- in the absence of a following -n-
>> would be, as Trask says, irregular, but it is attested in
>> words like Lat. BACILLA > makila "stick".

> I can't find Bacilla in Ernout-Meillet?

Plural of <bacillum> 'a small staff, a wand'. (No, I don't
know why the plural was borrowed, but this is what Larry
Trask said a few years ago.)

Brian