Re: Basque onddo

From: stlatos
Message: 70429
Date: 2012-11-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:
>
> At 6:26:41 PM on Sunday, November 4, 2012, stlatos wrote:
>
> > The above opt. needn't look strange, since a similar one
> > is needed for mucho / muy no matter what the middle stages
> > were.
>
> Nothing optional is needed here.


Wrong. There's Por. muito, abutre, cutelo vs (O)Sp muyt, buitre, cuchiello, with no reg. apparent in either (or between).


One is the regular outcome
> of (U)LT- when the T remains syllable-initial; the other is
> the regular outcome when the T becomes final, as in MULT(U)
> > muyt, later muy.
>