On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:31:48 +0000, tgpedersen
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tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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>Basque <ur> "water" has the combining forms <ur->, <uh->, <ug->.
And why not ub-?
In fact, the only combining forms are u- (old) and ur-
(recent), with regular loss of final -r (not -rr!) in the
old compunds.
If a vowel follows, the hiatus in the sequence u-V- is
resolved as *uwV- > ubV-, or uhV- [> ugV- in h-less
dialects], depending on the dialect and perhaps the
following vowel (e.g. *ur + -alte => *u-alte "flood" =>
uhalte (Z), uhalde (L), ubalde (AN), ugalde (B,G)).
According to my rules, the pre-pre-Basque form would have
been *(w)ud-.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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