Re: More changes in Montreiano :)

En réponse à Elliott Lash <AL260@...>:

>
> I know that the Italian for old is  "vecchio", and it seems reasonable
> enough
> to assume that this came from Latin "vetulus" (I'm pretty sure this is
> it,
> the Classical was "vetus") through a Vulgar Latin form "vetlus/veclus".
> Of
> course, this form also
> became the French "vieil" and the Spanish "viejo".
>
Well, then it would come from VL veclus, vecleris? Then I think the "Roumant"
form would look more like Italian than French and Spanish in this case (or maybe
not, I wonder how a final /kl/ cluster would evolve... Maybe it would still
bring a /S/ somewhere...).

Christophe.