Re: proto-romance questions
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 16, 1999, 10:05 |
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At 19:18 -0600 15.12.1999, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>> Proto-Romance *mj (corresponding to Latin "mi"/"me" before
>> vowels) remained
>> in most places, except Old French, where it became /ndZ/ > /Z/
>> (page 152 in
>> Hall 1976, for those who got it).
>
>Hmm, is that possibly how Latin *cambiare yielded English <change>? I've
>always wondered how the -mb- could become -ng- but have never seen it
>explained. I supposed it could have gone: *cambiare>*camiar>SandZer>Fr.
><changer> (or is it <ier>?)
Yes, more or less. It went kambjare > kammj- > kandZ- > tSandZ- > S~aZ-,
with -are > -&r@ > -er > -e along the road, but I'm not sure about the
relative timing of the changes in the root and ending. Not all of these
changes were reflected in orthography, you know!
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> <melroch@...>
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