Re: CHAT: weird names,was Re: conlanging,the ultimate feminist subversion
| From: | andrew <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 6, 1999, 23:03 |
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On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Actually, wasn't the /e/ of other Romance Langs originally /i/? It's my
> understanding that, for instance, schola --> iscola --> escola -->
> escuela (in Spanish). Aren't epinthetic vowels generally a high vowel,
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Brithenig does not have the rule /I/ -> /E/, so this is likely to be true.
>
- andrew.
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