Re: [tied] Re: Another way of arriving at ablaut

tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> The Basque combining forms of 'ur' are uh-, ub-, ug-.

They're not, as I already explained. The combining form is u-, with regular loss of final /r/.

> As I probably told before, a spanish hitchhiker we once picked up
> told us, he was from 'þara?oþa', I believe it was.

The pronunciation is [TaraGóTa], with non-fricative, approximant [G]. Occasionally, it may sound or be rendered as [TaraóTa], but it's highly unlikely a native speaker will ever pronounce a glottal stop here (or anywhere else).