> Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> writes:
>
> > > This is very interesting. The Latin stressed vowel > diphthong rule
that
> > > happened in Spanish and Italian (&c.) is certainly active in Spanish.
> ...
> > There are some dialects, however, that've leveled the paradigm, saying
> > things like piensar.
>
> Also in the opposite direction: |yo colo| instead of |yo cuelo| (from
> |colar| "sieve". And the superlatives, which also showed this change,
> have been regularized with the diphthongized form: nobody says
> |fortísimo| but |fuertísimo|, |bonísimo| > |buenísimo|, etc.
>
>
> --Pablo Flores
>
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/index.html
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