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Re: proto-romance questions

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 15, 1999, 23:52
BP Jonsson wrote:
> Correct, but /f/ > /h/ somewhere along the line before disappearing.
Yeah, I think that it occured after /x/ was formed, so I just clipped it. From what I understand, it was /f/ -> /P/ -> /h/ -> 0
> Nasal *m*? Surely yous mean nasal *n*?
*Palatal* n, yes. I assumed that her "palatal m" was a typo for "palatal n".
> the last three didn't become /nj/ everywhere -- cf. "damnare" It. dannare, > Sp. da~nar, Ptg. danar (Fr. damner is a loan from Latin) with "somnium" It. > sogno /nj/, Fr. songe /nZ/, Prov. somne, Sp. sue~no, Ptg. sonho. Note > "domina" Pr-Rmc domna, It. donna, Sp. do~na!
Well, n~ in Spanish is frequently derived from nn, which came from mn, so domina -> domna -> donna -> don~a, an I think it's _duen~a_ in Modern Spanish. -- "Old linguists never die - they just come to voiceless stops." - anonymous http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Books.html ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor