--- Piotr Gasiorowski <
gpiotr@...> wrote:
> see Joshua Katz's paper from the 17th
> Annual UCLA IE
> Conference. Katz has some beautiful examples
> including *nah2-ont-
> 'swimming' > la(h)hanza(n)- 'duck'.
It looks to me more like a case of *xán-x-tí:x >
xán-x-tí:x
xán-a-tí:x
etc.
xánati
xánanti (contamination)
náxanti (met.)
náxantsi
láxantsi
The contamination would be from fem. nouns in
*-óntí:x > *-anti:
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