Re: a small discovery

Barry Garcia wrote:

>Here's a bit of the phonology that i hadn't touched upon in Montreiano:
>
>In Montreiano, the endings -ión, and -io evolved into -iún and -iu. Thus,
>"nation" became: "naziún", and propio became "propiu". the change of /o/
>to /u/ happened when o was preceeded by i.
I don't recall if, or how, Montreiano preserves the preterit, but would this
change also show up in the 3sing.?  Span. debió, murió (or in the pres.
1sing. of -iar verbs (there aren't many)? confiar: confío. -- Or would the
stress prevent the change? Hmm-- not in naziún, I see).  How about with an
intervening consonant, as in Span. pres.1 digo, pret.3 dijo, hizo?  Of
course, M. forms may not correspond due to sound changes.  Lots of
interesting possibilities.

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