On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:56:56 +0000, tgpedersen
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tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>BTW I can't access my copy of Trask; do you recall whether there is
>other evidence (eg. internal) of the Basque *b- > m-, other than the
>supposed loans from Latin?
b..n.. > m..0.. is completely regular. Since pre-Basque,
ca. 2000 years ago, had no phoneme /m/, all cases of modern
Basque words containing /m/ are recent: either through
regular phonetic development of /b/, borrowings from
Latin/Romance, or newly-created expressive formations.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...