Talk:kawayo

1998, Kenneth C. Hill, Spanish loanwords in Hopi, in The Life of Language: Papers in Linguistics in Honor of William Bright (edited by Jane H. Hill, P. J. Mistry, Lyle Campbell), page 23: 11. It is interesting that kawayo has a short vowel in the second syllable. This suggests that the word has been well-integrated within Hopi phonology. [...] 14. Kastiila < Castilla [...] show that at the time of borrowing, Spanish ll still had the lateral phonetic feature, which it lacks in present-day Mexican Spanish. But the lateral feature must have been rather weak during the borrowing period since Spanish ll was borrowed as y after a in kawayo < caballo (8).
- -sche (discuss) 05:40, 5 March 2018 (UTC)