Re: Question about Latin E and Slavic yat'

On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 18:48:08 -0500, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>> First of all, diphthongisation. According to my books, Latin long E
>> and OE were pronounced [e] in Vulgar Latin, while Latin short E and
>> AE were pronounced [E]. Until now, I have been assuming that long E
>> and long I diphthongised to [iE], thus giving SE: > *sje > sze. But
>> I'm slowly finding out that in all Romance languages except
>> Portuguese diphthongisation occurred rather in the short version,
>> [E].
>
> Unless I'm mistaken, long e diphthongized in certain envs. in French-- the
> pronouns me/te/se, words like lege-, rege-, credere, debere etc.
> (C-loss may have something to do with those; I don't recall the rules
> offhand.)
Stressed long e and o became |ei|, |ou| then |oi|, |eu| in Old French
(examples: TE:LAM > toile; FLO:REM > fleur)

They diphthongize in Ibran, too: O: > /uo/ > /u:/ and E: > /je/ (E > /jE/)

	*Muke!
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