Re: More Þrjótran

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
> Henrik Theiling skrev:
>
> > I.e., the rule was probably wrong -- thanks for noting!
> > I fixed it and the test suite still works plus 'slo:gum'
> > also works.
> > The new rules produce 'jaga' for 'ego:' now.
> > We'll see. :-)  I think it could reasonably become 'ja:'.
>
> I think you should start from IÔ or EÔ rather than EGÔ,
> since that is the form all Romance languages point to,
> i.e. if we didn't know Latin (and other old IE languages)
> no *g would be reconstructible for this word in Proto-Romance!
Of course, that's why I drop the _g_ from the regularly derived form.

I also checked the _g_-less forms in Latin, of course.

Starting with 'io:' or 'eo:' is a bit tricky because of the hiatus,
which is uncommon in PG.  So using the sound change script on such
words often needs manual care.  Depending on how I fix it, the result
is often also close to the current 'ja:' and, therefore, I decided
it's quite a good choice.  You probably wouldn't reconstruct *g from
this, would you? :-)

**Henrik

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