Re: CHAT: Politeness in conlangs
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 15, 1999, 0:33 |
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Padraic Brown wrote:
> "vos". If I remember aright, Latin v [w] -> gw & final -s drops away.
> I'm not sure what happened to the o, though. Probably got lost in the
> shuffle. :) Or dissapeared into a vocalised w.
Where'd the /g/ come from? Was /w/ --> /gw/ a normal sound change in
Brithenig?
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