[Nahuat-l] The meaning of "Tegucigalpa."

[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

--- On Tue, 27/10/09, Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu> wrote:
> However, a greater obstacle to your /te:ku:skikalpa(n)/is explaining 
> the disappearance of the /k/ of /ku:ski/. If /sk/ was a challenging 
> consonant
pair for early Spanish speakers, then you may be home free. But I don't
know
> about that. Others on the list may have a thing or two to say
about this.

Dissimilation? The word contains three k sounds and is thus a bit of a tongue-twister; the middle k dropped out.

Citlalyani.
 
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