[tied] Re: A loose thought on present n-infix, ablaut

> >Erh, yes, but what is the evidence that it had no *m? Aquitanian?
>
> Aquitanian too, but mainly internal reconstruction. /m/
> plays no role in Basque morphology, it does not occur in
> numerals, kinship names, body parts, and is mostly
> restricted to vocabulary items denoting small animals,
> physical defects or of an expressive / onomatopoeic nature
> (Michelena, Fonética Histórica Vasca, p. 275 ff.)
>

I think it's safe to assign 'makilla' and other 'coppice economy'
words to that sphere, so I'm still confident that I can see that word
as a loan, with its m-, into Vasconian or Old Basque.


Torsten