From: Octavià Alexandre
Message: 62359
Date: 2009-01-05
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
>Spanish balsa 'pool' is a substrate borrowing like Basque baltsa 'mud, puddle', palsa (Z) 'puddle', balsa (HN) 'pool', balxa (Z) 'marsh, bog, swamp'. These forms are related to PNC *ph|ilts':w@ 'dirt, mud'.
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> Interesting, Spanish balsa originally "swamp", now usually "raft" is substrate
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