From: Francesco Brighenti
Message: 53391
Date: 2008-02-16
> Be careful with Bengtson's information. Even afterSome details of this controversy are found on Bengtson's Basque
> Larry Trask showed him that much of his Basque
> vocabulary consisted of loanwords from Romance, he
> refused to even consider the possibility. I don't know
> how good his information is from other sources but his
> work on Basque is seriously flawed because he lets his
> grand design get in the way of facts.
> Basically Bengtson refused to believe that pre-Basque
> lacked /m/, something that Basque specialists seem to
> agree on. He also refused to consider words from
> Gascon, Aragonese as probable sources for loanwords
> into Basque --e.g. eme "woman, female (morpheme)" <
> Gascon heme "woman" < femina; okondo < native Basque
> oko "arm" + ondo "bottom (morpheme)" from Gascon or
> Spanish hondo are a couple I remember.