Re: R: A funny linguistic subway experience + some questions about nouns of days and months

En réponse à Mangiat <mangiat@...>:

> Cristophe wrote:
>
> > The months names are not a problem, except for Italian luglio
> (certainly
> > pronounced /'lul_jo/, am I right Luca?):
>
> In Italian it's /lul^o/. In my dialect that's lüj /lyj/ (lüj la tera la
> büj...).
>
> Luca
>
That's what I thought. Still, what's the origin of the initial /l/?
Assimilation? Also, Iulius gave also way to firstnames in Romance languages
(Jules in French, Julio in Spanish, etc...). What is the Italian correspondant?

Christophe.