Reconstruction:Proto-Basque/-g
Proto-Basque
editSuffix
edit*-g
- Forms absolutive plurals.
Reconstruction notes
editThe inflected forms of Basque plural demonstratives exhibit an apparent plural marker -e-. Case suffixes added after *-g would require an epenthetic *-e-. The resulting intervocalic *-g- would then be lost. However, this hypothesis is tentative.
Descendants
edit- ⇒? Basque: -ak
References
edit- “-k (1)” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk