Re: [tied] Re: Six, -ts- > -ks-

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:28:01 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>But I
>> >think life would be easier for Vennemann's reconstruction
>*kamuntz if
>> >it were *kamunks.
>>
>> Well, it isn't. Basque -tz is merely the word-final variant
>> of -s. I see no real difficulty in imagining that this
>> fortis final -S (-ss, -ts) wound up in Latin as -x in words
>> such as camox (I don't think the word was borrowed directly
>> from Basque anyway).
>>
>
>Out of curiosity: which path do you think it took, and was there
>a /k/ involved on the way?

-ss > -ts. E.g. Lat. fortis -> Bq. bortitz, Lat. corpus ->
Bq. gorputz, perphaps Lat. cippus > Bq. giputz (as in
Gipuz-ko-a).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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