Deux notes lexicographiques

Abstract

The name of the duck or the grebe is expressed in Basque, as in uralian, by themes of expressive nature where the initial is the labial voiceless p-. These terms seem to derive from the same root. We may remember that, generally speaking, basque does not voice initials of expressive terms (nor words under latin-roman influence). Finally, it seems that some proto-basque roots have not voiced because of the presence of a prothesis.