Basque onddo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@> wrote:
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> > This is very unlikely. Spanish pollo gives Basque oilo just as Romance
> > fongo gives onddo (with expressive palatalization).
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> I rejected that etymology before, and believers in "expressive palatalization" need to explain why a mushroom would produce such a demand for expressivity in speakers that only palatalization could satisfy it. Are we talking about a MAGIC mushroom?
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In Western Romance, the phoneme N changed into NY > nY > ñ . Since N was not a phoneme before k/g (but only classified as C+nasal, automatically acquiring the place of the following stop), it didn't change. However, in Bq, nasals weren't automatically given the place of the following stop. Therefore, Ng > nYg > nYgY > etc.


The existence of clusters like mX is seen in:

* XasYEmXálXi >
Acenari = (name), azebari / azegari / azeri / azari Biz = fox Bq;