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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:
> I can't help but notice that your o-prefix infecting a root to
become
> an o-infix looks a lot like the /a/ of Schrijver's "language of
bird
> names" which does something similar.
Not *very* similar. If there are *mesal- and *ams(V)l- 'merula,
Amsel', it only means that prefixing of a morpheme *a- reduced the
following part of the word. I do not think there has been made any
theory identifying the two -a-'s, so nothing is becoming an infix
here. I am not *very* familiar with it though, so show me if I'm
wrong.
Jens