Re: p <-> kw
| From: | Pablo David Flores <pablo-flores@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 21, 2002, 22:00 |
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Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> writes:
> I had a romance conlang where the word for "water" was _af_:
> /akwa/ -> /apa/ -> /ap@/ -> /ap/ -> /af/
Very close to Sindarin, which has /alf/ from */alp/ < */alkw/-
(Quenya has /alkwa/ for the same root). IIRC the change of final
stops into fricatives was taken by Tolkien from some point of
the development of English.
--Pablo Flores
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/nyh/index.html
|Midi davie sukhaod itimuri.|
("Time makes poetry from mistakes.")
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