On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>Not really. When you only have one dialect to look at,
>you can do internal reconstruction based on alternations
>in that form alone. You can do this easily with English:
>look at allomorphs like "divine" /dIvaIn/ ~ "divinity" /dIvInIti/
>and then, based on the data, determine what the protoform
>must have been for that dialect.
Without knowing Latin, what proto form do you get?
Padraic.
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