Re: A funny linguistic subway experience + some questions about

e skrive Raymond Brown:

> >Is <dydd> a native Welsh word, or is it also from Latin?
>
> >From ancient British and, ultimately, from same PIE origin as Latin
_dies_,
> but borrowed directly IIRC.  The -dd- /D/ is derived from an earlier /jj/
> --> /Z/
>
> The Breton cognate is _deiz_
> [...]
Interestingly, Breton uses the form _di_ for days of the week, not deiz:
disul
dilun
dimeurzh
dimerc'her
diriaou
digwener
disadorn

> >
> >My hypothesis was that diumenge < *diomenga < *di(es) domenica, with the
> >initial d of *domenica dropping because of its intervocalic position.
This
> >happens a lot in Spanish and French,
>
> Yes, in French at least we had /d/ --> /D/ --> zero
Really? I hadn't noticed. Do you have any examples of this? I know that we
have the intervocalic change /t/ --> /d/ --> /D/ --> zero, as in MATUREM -->
madhur --> meür --> mûr or VENUTA --> venude --> venue or ESPAT(H)A -->
espedhe --> épée etc.

Dan

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