Re: booze words

Hi!

Tristan McLeay writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
>
>> Terkunan:
>>     kervis   < cervisia/cervesia    'beer'
>>     vin      < vinum                'wine'
>
> After the other thread, not "krevis" (yet?)?
Good question!  Must be a problem in the sound shifter.

...searches...

Ah, I had added a rule to prevent metathesis before w, j, because
it produced rubbish when the vowel after the w or j is deleted.
E.g.
   corvus, curvu:s   >  koru   (not *krohu)
   imperium          >  mperi  (not *mprehi)

Some may like *krohu and *mprehi, but I don't, because of the hiatus
('h' is silent and merely marks that the two adjacent vowels are in
different syllables instead of a diphthong).

So quite obviously, I need to find a different order for the rules
or take some other measures to allow

   cervisia  > krevis

Here, the intermediate /wisja/ > **/wisj/ > */wis/ > /vis/, so the /w/
does not become vocalic, causing a hiatus, so it should indeed cause
metathesis.

Thanks for spotting this!

**Henrik

PS: Unrelated, but there's currently another problem:
    gloria > **glrohi.  Shoot!