q as waw?

[MarcoP]

I think "q" means rather "d", "qo" =do ou d'

Hi Ruby, if I understand correctly, your idea is that EVA:q might be a "prepositional prefix": a preposition that is actually joined to the word it applies to. I think this is a good hypothesis, but I also think that (if this is the case) q- corresponds to an abbreviation for a syllable, not a single sound. 

As Koen wrote, if q- is just d (like an abbreviation of the Latin "de" , French "de"/"des"/"du" or Italian "di") it seems strange that it so rarely appears in words as the sound "d".

In French, d appears at the beginning of words about 50% of the times (about 25% of the times as "de"): it does have a positional preference, but nothing comparable with that of q.