Re: Basque onddo

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>
> > > Where did Asena:rius come from, if not brd < Bq?
>
> > Cognomen from <asinus>.
>
> > > Then why Aznar?
>
> Presumably because the Latin (or Romance) sibilant sounded
> more like the Basque laminal sibilant than like the Basque
> apical sibilant.
>

I don't think so. In ancient loanwords, Latin/Romance apical /s'/
systematically corresponds to Basque laminal sibilant /s/. This suggests
that ancient Basque sibilants had a different distribution than in the
modern language.