Re: Vulgar Latin
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 12, 2000, 0:51 |
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Tom Wier wrote:
> (Although I'll grant
> it does seem funny on an intuitive level that words so similar as 'amico'
> and 'amica' did not undergo the same analogical leveling.)
Actually, in Italian, it's a general property of the endings -i and -e,
if -i is added to a word with -c, there's the phonetic change to /tS/,
but not with -e, so any word ending in -co becomes -ci (/tSi/) in the
plural, while -ca becomes -che (/ke/)
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