On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 10:39:55 +0000, tgpedersen
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tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>So you're saying *(t)egi + *-se > *etse? It doesn't sound right to me.
>I could believe *(t)egi + *-ze > *etse.
Amazing.
Words ending in -i drop the vowel in their combining form.
If the word then ends in a plosive (-b, -d, -g, rarely (-p),
-t, -k), the plosive combines with the initial segment of
the suffix/second elemt as follows:
-C#s > -ts-
-C#z-> -tz-
-C#V- > -tV-
-C#n- > -nn- > -n-
-C#l- > -ll- > -l-
-C#b-/p- > -p-
-C#d-/t- > -t-
-C#g-/k- > -k-
E.g. begi "eye":
begi + zain "nerve" > betzain "optical nerve"
begi + sein "boy" > betsein "pupil"
begi + ile "hair" > betile "eyelash"
begi + buru "head" > bepuru "eyebrow"
begi + gain "top" > bekain "eyebrow"
In the case of *(t)egi:
*(t)egi + -se > etse, palatalized etxe
*(t)egi + *-ze > *etze, palatalized etxe
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...