Re: R: Re: R: A funny linguistic subway experience + some questions about nouns of days and months

En réponse à Mangiat <mangiat@...>:

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> Mmm... really dunno about initial gl. The name in Italian is Giulio (the
> regular process should give *Giguglio, tho).
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It doesn't surprise me. Names generally don't follow regular processes (in
French for instance, the first name François /fRa~'swa/ and the adjective
français /fRa~'sE/ derive from the same form françois /fRa~'swE/, but while the
adjective followed a regular change - most final /wE/ became /E/ in Modern
French, the name didn't). So, in Italian, Julius gave both Giulio and luglio (in
French, it gave Jules and juillet :) ). Interesting, it seems that proper names
are generally more conservative than common words. Again, nothing so surprising
in it in fact.