| From: | Daniel A. Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 1, 2000, 23:44 |
>From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>>dirk elzinga wrote: > > Here's a partial Uto-Aztecan cognate set for *tama 'tooth': > > Nahuatl tlan-Wait, don't many Mexican placenames end in -tlán?> > The Shoshoni word shows lenition of intervocalic /m/ to [w~]. > >Fascinating.Yeah, and Old Irish did the same thing. Or was it a nasalized [v~]? Danny ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com