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Proto-Basque language

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</style><table class="infobox" style="width:22em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="background-color: #dddddd;">Proto-Basque</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reconstruction of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Basque_dialects" title="Basque dialects">Basque dialects</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Era</th><td class="infobox-data">500 BCE – 100 CE</td></tr></tbody></table>

Proto-Basque (<a href="Basque_language" title="Basque language">Basque</a>: aitzineuskara; <a href="Spanish_language" title="Spanish language">Spanish</a>: protoeuskera, protovasco; <a href="French_language" title="French language">French</a>: proto-basque)<a href="#cite_note-1">[a]</a> is a reconstructed ancient stage of the <a href="Basque_language" title="Basque language">Basque language</a>. It preceded another reconstructed stage, Common Basque, which is derived by comparing <a href="Basque_dialects" title="Basque dialects">dialects of modern Basque</a>. Common Basque is their reconstructed common ancestor. Proto-Basque is based on the comparison also of words that precede Common Basque, such as Latin words in Basque, and toponyms. Common Basque is dated to the 5th and 6th centuries, while Proto-Basque stage can be roughly dated to the last centuries BCE, before the <a href="Roman_conquest_of_the_Iberian_Peninsula" title="Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula">Roman conquests</a> in the Western <a href="Pyrenees" title="Pyrenees">Pyrenees</a>.<a href="#cite_note-alfa-2">[1]</a>

The foundation for the study of both stages was laid out by the Basque linguist <a href="Koldo_Mitxelena" title="Koldo Mitxelena">Koldo Mitxelena</a>.<a href="#cite_note-3">[b]</a> The topic was launched by him in the first edition of Fonética histórica vasca in 1961.<a href="#cite_note-4">[2]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2></div>

The first linguist who scientifically approached the question of the historical changes that Basque had undergone over the centuries was <a href="Koldo_Mitxelena" title="Koldo Mitxelena">Koldo Mitxelena</a>. His work on Proto-Basque focused mainly on between the 5th century BCE and the 1st century CE, just before and after initial contact with the <a href="Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Romans</a>. By comparing variants of the same word in <a href="Basque_dialects" title="Basque dialects">modern dialects</a> and the changes that <a href="Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> loanwords had undergone, he deduced the ancestral forms and the rules for historical sound changes. His groundbreaking work, which culminated with the publication of his book Fonética histórica vasca (1961) (a revised version of his doctoral thesis of 1959), was carried out mostly before the <a href="Aquitanian_language" title="Aquitanian language">Aquitanian</a> inscriptions were found, but they fully backed up Mitxelena's proposed Proto-Basque forms.<a href="#cite_note-Trask-5">[3]</a>

Since then, a number of other prominent linguists, such as <a href="Larry_Trask" class="mw-redirect" title="Larry Trask">Larry Trask</a>, Alfonso Irigoien, Henri Gavel and most recently Joseba Lakarra, Joaquín Gorrotxategi and Ricardo Gómez, have made further contributions to the field. Some of them, such as Lakarra, have focused their attention on even older layers of the language, called Pre-Proto-Basque (or Old Proto-Basque), that preceded the <a href="Celts" title="Celts">Celtic</a> invasion of <a href="Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula">Iberia</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHualde202132–35-6">[4]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Direct_attestations_of_Proto-Basque">Direct attestations of Proto-Basque</h2></div>

<a href="Onomastic" class="mw-redirect" title="Onomastic">Onomastic</a> attestations of the <a href="Aquitanian_language" title="Aquitanian language">Aquitanian language</a>, which is only known from the names of places, persons and deities in inscriptions from the first centuries CE, closely match the reconstructed form of Proto-Basque. For instance, Aquitanian names contain elements such as Seni- or Sembe- that fully correspond to the reconstructed Proto-Basque words *seni 'boy' and *sembe 'son'.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorrochategui2022116-7">[5]</a>

A small sample of what is thought to be a form of Proto-Basque has been discovered on the <a href="Hand_of_Irulegi" title="Hand of Irulegi">Hand of Irulegi</a>, an inscribed bronze artifact in the shape of a right hand dated to the 1st century BC.<a href="#cite_note-8">[6]</a>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reconstruction">Reconstruction</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Phonology">Phonology</h3></div>

The consonant system of Proto-Basque was reconstructed by Mitxelena as follows:<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETrask1997126-9">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEgurtzegi2013123-10">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELakarra201865-11">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[c]</a>

<caption>Consonants

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<th colspan="3"><a href="Stop_consonants" class="mw-redirect" title="Stop consonants">Stops</a>

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<th colspan="2"><a href="Sibilants" class="mw-redirect" title="Sibilants">Sibilants</a>

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<th colspan="3"><a href="Sonorants" class="mw-redirect" title="Sonorants">Sonorants</a>

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<th><a href="Fricative" title="Fricative">Fricative</a>

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<th><a href="Labial_consonant" title="Labial consonant">Labial</a>

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<th><a href="Dental_consonant" title="Dental consonant">Dental</a>

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<th><a href="Velar_consonant" title="Velar consonant">Velar</a>

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<th><a href="Apical_consonant" title="Apical consonant">Apical</a>

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<th><a href="Laminal_consonant" title="Laminal consonant">Laminal</a>

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<th><a href="Nasal_consonant" title="Nasal consonant">Nasal</a>

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<th><a href="Lateral_consonant" title="Lateral consonant">Lateral</a>

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<th><a href="Rhotic_consonant" title="Rhotic consonant">Rhotic</a>

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<th><a href="Laryngeal_consonant" title="Laryngeal consonant">Laryngeal</a>

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<th>fortis

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<td>R

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<td rowspan="2">h

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<th>lenis

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<td>r

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The characteristic <a href="Fortis_and_lenis" title="Fortis and lenis">fortis–lenis</a> contrast was realized in three ways:<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETrask1997126-9">[7]</a>

<ul><li>Duration: fortis consonants were pronounced <a href="Length_(phonetics)" title="Length (phonetics)">longer</a> than their lenis counterparts; for sonorants, this was the main contrast, rhotics were additionally distinguished as <a href="Trilled_consonant" class="mw-redirect" title="Trilled consonant">trill</a> ⟨R⟩ vs. <a href="Tap_consonant" class="mw-redirect" title="Tap consonant">tap</a> ⟨r⟩ as in Modern Basque</li>

<li>Occlusion: fortis stops and sibilants were fully <a href="Occlusive" title="Occlusive">occlusive</a>, their lenis counterparts only partially so; fortis sibilants thus were <a href="Affricate_consonants" class="mw-redirect" title="Affricate consonants">affricates</a>, lenis sibilants were <a href="Fricative_consonants" class="mw-redirect" title="Fricative consonants">fricatives</a></li>

<li>Voicing: lenis stops were generally <a href="Voice_(phonetics)" title="Voice (phonetics)">voiced</a>, while fortis stops were always unvoiced.</li></ul>

This consonant system differed in many ways from the consonant system in Modern Basque dialects:<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEgurtzegi2013123-10">[8]</a> most notable is the lack of /m/, /p/, the semivowels /w/ and /j/, and the entire <a href="Palatal_consonant" title="Palatal consonant">palatal consonant</a> series in Proto-Basque, and on the other hand the distinction between fortis and lenis nasals and laterals which is not found in the modern language.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETrask1997126-9">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELakarra201865-11">[9]</a>

This relatively small consonant system was further subject to positional restrictions: only the lenes ⟨b, g, z, s, n, l⟩ occurred at the beginning of a word (also ⟨d⟩, but only in auxiliary verbs), while only fortes were allowed in final position. The fortis–lenis contrast was therefore restricted to word-internal position.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETrask1997126-9">[7]</a>

Evidence for the Proto-Basque consonant system comes from sound correspondences between modern dialects, the distribution of sounds in native (i.e. non-borrowed) vocabulary, and from the phonological adaptation of early Latin/Romance borrowings.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHualde202127–32-13">[10]</a> E.g., the positional restrictions of Proto-Basque explain why the Common Romance affricate in /tselu/ 'sky' (< Classical Latin caelum) became a fricative in Basque (zeru) at the beginning of a word,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHualde202129-14">[11]</a> whereas the simple fricative at the end of the Latin word corpus 'body' was adopted as an affricate in Basque (gorputz).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEgurtzegi2013155-15">[12]</a> Further, the voicing contrast of stops in Latin/Romance borrowings was only preserved in medial position (e.g. lacum > laku 'lake' versus regem > errege 'king'), but not in word-initial position due to the lack of the fortis-lenis contrast in this position; thus for instance, both p- and b- became b- in Basque: benedica- > beindika 'bless', pacem > bake 'peace'.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHualde202127-16">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEgurtzegi2013149-17">[14]</a>

Studying the behaviour of Latin and early Romance loanwords in Basque, Mitxelena discovered that Proto-Basque *n was lost between vowels and that Proto-Basque had no *m. Both are relatively unusual cross-linguistically, but /n/ was also partially deleted between vowels during the history of the nearby <a href="Gascon_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Gascon language">Gascon</a> and <a href="Galician-Portuguese" class="mw-redirect" title="Galician-Portuguese">Galician-Portuguese</a>.

<th>Proto-Basque

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<th><a href="Basque_language" title="Basque language">Modern Basque</a>

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<th><a href="English_language" title="English language">English</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*ardano

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">ardo

</td>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*(h)ur

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">ur

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<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Water" title="Water">water</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*arrani

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">arrain

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*bene

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">mehe

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<td bgcolor="honeydew">thin, slim

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*bini

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">mihi

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<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Tongue" title="Tongue">tongue</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*egu-gaitz

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">ekaitz

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<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Storm" title="Storm">storm</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*eLana ~ *eNala

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">elai ~ enara

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<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Barn_swallow" title="Barn swallow">barn swallow</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*gaztana

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">gazta

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<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Cheese" title="Cheese">cheese</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*ini

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">ihi

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<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Juncus" title="Juncus">rush (plant)</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*organa

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">orga

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*sen-be

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">seme

</td>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*seni

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">sehi

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<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Servant" class="mw-redirect" title="Servant">servant</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*suni

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">suhi

</td>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*un-be

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">ume

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<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/young" class="extiw external" title="wikt:young">young</a>, baby

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*zani

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">zain

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<td bgcolor="honeydew">guard

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*zini

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">zii, zi

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<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Acorn" title="Acorn">acorn</a>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Old_Proto-Basque">Old Proto-Basque</h3></div>

One of the puzzles of Basque is the large number of words that begin with vowels in which the initial and second vowels are the same. Joseba Lakarra proposes that in Pre-Proto-Basque there was extensive <a href="Reduplication" title="Reduplication">reduplication</a><a href="#cite_note-18">[15]</a> and that later, certain initial consonants were deleted, leaving the VCV pattern of Proto-Basque:

<th>Pre-Proto-Basque

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<th>Proto-Basque

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<th><a href="Basque_language" title="Basque language">Modern Basque</a>

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<th><a href="English_language" title="English language">English</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*dar → *da-dar

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*adaR

</td>

<td bgcolor="aliceblue">adar

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<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Horn_(anatomy)" title="Horn (anatomy)">horn (anatomy)</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*dats → *da-dats

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*adats

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">adats

</td>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*der → *de-der

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*edeR

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">eder

</td>

<td bgcolor="honeydew">beautiful

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*dol → *do-dol

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*odoL

</td>

<td bgcolor="aliceblue">odol

</td>

<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Blood" title="Blood">blood</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*gor → *go-gor

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*gogoR

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<td bgcolor="aliceblue">gogor

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<td bgcolor="honeydew">hard

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*nal → *na-nal

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*anaL

</td>

<td bgcolor="aliceblue">ahal

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<td bgcolor="honeydew">can, to be able

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*nan → *na-nan

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*anan-tz

</td>

<td bgcolor="aliceblue">ahantz

</td>

<td bgcolor="honeydew">to forget

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*nin → *ni-nin

</td>

<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*inin-tz

</td>

<td bgcolor="aliceblue">ihintz

</td>

</td></tr>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*nol → *no-nol

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*onoL

</td>

<td bgcolor="aliceblue">ohol

</td>

<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Lumber" title="Lumber">board</a>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*nur → *nu-nur

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*unuR

</td>

<td bgcolor="aliceblue">hur

</td>

<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="Hazelnut" title="Hazelnut">hazelnut</a>

</td></tr>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*zal → *za-zal

</td>

<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*azal

</td>

<td bgcolor="aliceblue">azal

</td>

</td></tr>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*zen → *ze-zen

</td>

<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*zezen

</td>

<td bgcolor="aliceblue">zezen

</td>

</td></tr>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*ten → *te-ten

</td>

<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*eten

</td>

<td bgcolor="aliceblue">eten

</td>

<td bgcolor="honeydew"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/break#English" class="extiw external" title="wikt:break">break</a>

</td></tr>

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<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*ran → *ra-ran

</td>

<td bgcolor="whitesmoke">*aran

</td>

<td bgcolor="aliceblue">aran

</td>

</td></tr></tbody></table>

<ul><li><a href="Vasconic_languages" title="Vasconic languages">Vasconic languages</a></li>

<li><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Basque_Swadesh_list" class="extiw external" title="wiktionary:Appendix:Proto-Basque Swadesh list">Proto-Basque Swadesh list</a> (Wiktionary)</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div>

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<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> Also called Pre-Basque by <a href="#CITEREFTrask1997">Trask (1997)</a>, p. 125

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<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> Known in Spanish as Luis Michelena, which is the name that predominates in linguistic writing by him and other linguists. He did his development during the mid-20th century.

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<li id="cite_note-12"><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a> The notation of reconstructed sounds in the table follows <a href="#CITEREFLakarra2017">Lakarra (2017)</a> harvp error: no target: CITEREFLakarra2017 (help). Mitxelena uses small ⟨p, t, k⟩ for the lenis consonants and capital letters for the fortes, while Trask does not capitalize the fortes but uses ⟨b, d, g⟩ for the lenes.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div>

<li id="cite_note-alfa-2"><a href="#cite_ref-alfa_2-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMartinez-Areta2013">Martinez-Areta 2013</a>, p. 9

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<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMichelina1990">Michelina 1990</a>, p. 11

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<li id="cite_note-Trask-5"><a href="#cite_ref-Trask_5-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFTrask1997">Trask 1997</a>

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHualde202132–35-6"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHualde202132–35_6-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFHualde2021">Hualde 2021</a>, p. 32–35.

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<li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEGorrochategui2022116-7"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGorrochategui2022116_7-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFGorrochategui2022">Gorrochategui 2022</a>, p. 116.

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<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFBlevins2018" class="citation web cs1"><a href="Juliette_Blevins" title="Juliette Blevins">Blevins, Juliette</a> (2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.routledge.com/Advances-in-Proto-Basque-Reconstruction-with-Evidence-for-the-Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian-Hypothesis/Blevins/p/book/9780367417291">"Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction with Evidence for the Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis"</a>. Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2024-03-27.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFTrask2008" class="citation cs2"><a href="Larry_Trask" class="mw-redirect" title="Larry Trask">Trask, R. L.</a> (2008), Wheeler, Max W. (ed.), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/2154989">Etymological Dictionary of Basque</a>, Falmer, UK: University of Sussex</cite></li></ul>

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