Re: Basque onddo

At 6:30:25 PM on Wednesday, October 31, 2012, Tavi wrote:

> --- 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/.

That would support what I said.