Mangiat wrote:
> Just a question: is the term 'outcoming' right to describe a sound or even a
> word derived from another? I'm translating a grammar of my dialect, here's a
> piece of it:
>
> <<). In a closed syllable the outcoming can be u (promptu > prunt; ordo >
> urdin; cepulla > scigula; curte > curt; gutta > guta; ne gutta > nagutt CM;
> furnu > furnu; crusta > crusta; pulvere > pulvar; vulpe > vulp; dulce >
> dulz; ung(u)la > ungia) or ü (spongia > spügna; pullu > püj; nos > nün; vos
> > vü; duo > düü). >>
A technical term for a derivative is "reflex". This term is generally applied
to words (as in "Modern English _loaf_ is the reflex of Old English _hla:f_"),
but I don't see why it couldn't be applied to sounds as well.
Matt.