On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:33:10 +0000, tgpedersen <
tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
>Have any of the Basque roots using this assumed /r/-containing
>collective suffix been suggested as loan words into Basque?
Not to my knowledge. They are mostly basic vocabulary without any known
outside connections.
It's possible that ilar (irar ~ idar) "pea(s)" is a borrowing from
Indo-European *p(e)it- "food, pea", with addition of the -arr collective
suffix (*pit-arr > idarr ~ irarr > ilarr).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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