Re: gl > gr attested in Romance?

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:31:19 +0100, Benct Philip Jonsson
<conlang@...> wrote:
>Henrik Theiling skrev:
> > Also, what about /Nn/ > /Ngr/ like /mn/ > /mbr/ (sp.
> > 'nombre' < NOM(I)NE(M))?
> >
> > Tere, I'm thinking of 'ringre' < RE:GNU(M).
>
>The only snag is that [Nn] for _gn_ is AFAIK unattested in
>Romance, which IIANM has /J/ or /nn/ > /n/, in all the
>relevand words, e.g. Old French _renne_. But wait, Rumanian
>has LIGNU > _lemn_, and I guess all of /J/, /n(n)/, /mn/ may
>be derivable from [Nn] if one wants to.
I thought that Latin <GN> was generally understood to be [Nn], and Latin's
use of <G> for [N] in this cluster was inspired by Greek gamma having the
value [N] before velars.

Or are you suggesting this was a CL pronunciation that didn't survive into VL?

Alex