Hola pe�a.
Por mucho que el ilustre Miguel Carrasquer Vidal haya escrito lo de
abajo en su lugar erudito, sigo sin enterarme de lo que pone abajo, porque
no s� ingl�s. Si lo supiera, lo sabr�a, como dicen los chuscos.
Antonio Acebo.
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Initials in Basque are peculiar, considering that of the 15 ~ 16 consonants
reconstructed for Pre-Basque ( = Basque ca. 2000 years ago):
lenis: b d g z s n l r
fortis: (p) t k tz ts N L R
, only b-, g-, z-, s-, n-, l- can occur in initial position, and, moreover,
n-,
l-, s- ( = /s'/, apical s) are rare. The vast majority of words start with
a
vowel. Most consonant-initial words start with b-, g- or z- (= laminal s-).
If
we go beyond Pre-Basque (Mitxelena-Trask reconstruction) to my personal and
tentative reconstructions, I would say that a word zakuR must be derived
from
either **saggur or **daggur (and if final -R has replaced original *-r in
this
word, we can add **saggun, **daggun, **saggud or **daggud), i.e.
{sd}aggu{rdn}.
Another Basque word for "dog" is (h)or (with rare final -r, nor -rr), for
which
the possibilities are almost endless: **{ptkh0ybwm}{o,aw}{dn}
[**b-,**w-,**m- >
**b- only if vowel was **o, because *bo- > o-]. Reconstructing **kawn, for
instance, is only one of many possibilities.
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