Re: floor

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

>
> All these suggest to me is back-formation from <txakur'> by analogy
> with different sets of words in which hypocoristic palatalization was
> actually applied to the primary.
>
> > If you're right, it would make txakurr a straightforward reflex of PNC
> > *tsEhwo:le (~ -a) 'fox, jackal' cognate to native Basque azeri, azegari
> > 'fox' < *a-tsegali (please forget the Vascologists' "etymology" from
> > Asenarius > Aznar).
>

But in your "West-Mediterranean" you forgot English cur 'mongrel', dialectal Swedish kurre 'dog', which are explained from PNEC *XXHwej-rV 'dog' (oblique stem).

Thus IMHO kakurr would derive from a prefixed form with *?a-, which txakurr resulting from secondary assibilation.