Re: OFF: Name for a cat

Nik wrote:

> Carlos Thompson wrote:
> > Hangkerimians just call cats as KA^DO~ which is definitively a Spanish
> > borrowing.
>
> Why /k/ and /d/?  I take it KA^DO~ is something like /kAdo/?  Why not
> GA^TO~?
Just because /g/ and /t/ are just allophonies of <K> and <D> respectivelly,
and have no representation of their own... well, actually it is KA^DU~ (/o/
is an allophony of <U>).

But once the word became a full Hangkerimce word, is just pronounced
/'kAdu/.

Well, actual pronunciation would vary on emphasis from /'kADo/ to /'gOdu/.

-- Carlos Th