Re: More changes in Montreiano :)

On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:05:47PM +0100, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> En réponse à Eric Christopherson <raccoon@...>:
>
> >
> > Right on the money. After the syncope of the medial -u-, we're left with
> > -tl-, which, being against the predominant phonactics of VL (and CL
> > too),
> > changed to -cl-. I'd say what the outcome would be in Lainesco, but I
> > haven't quite worked out -cl- yet. Probably /vi:j\o/ (voiced palatal
> > fricative or /vi:Zo/.
> >
>
> I'm thinking of an evolution like that in "Roumant", except that the VL /e/ of
> veclus would certainly by diphtongized. I'm thinking of /vjE/ in masculine and
> /vjES/ in feminine or with liaison. Was the /e/ in veclus short or long?
Short, judging from the diphthongization in Spanish and French. Actually, it
would have been a diphthong too in Lainesco, but eventually the diphthong
smooths out into /i:/.


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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo