Re: [tied] Water, pre/postpositions, somewhat OT

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

> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 08:45:24 +0000, tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >I applaud your costumary ingenuity, but isn't that a rather small
> >base to date the loss of p-, t- k- on?
>
> As far as I know, nobody has conducted an exhaustive search
> yet of possible Celtic elements in Basque using the
> "unexpected" equivalences t- ~ 0-, k- ~ 0-, d- ~ z-.
>
> There must be more cases like *teges- ~ etxe "house", carric
> ~ harri "stone", *deldon- ~ zaldi "(ambling) horse" waiting
> to be discovered.
>

Well, who's stopping you? ;-)

Löpelmann lists the following placenames in Iberian, not Basque,
territory as evidence that <etxe> "house" was used there:

Chaorna
Irnecha (Soria)
Exenaga ( -> Saneja in Cerdaña)
Exeria ( -> Jerica in Catellón)
Exaresa ( -> Jaresa in Valencia)

How would you account for those names?

Torsten