Re: CHAT: silly names (in Brithenig)

Eric Christopherson scripsit:

> 1) What's IB? Ill Bethisad?
Yes.

> 2) How's the Latin word accented? On the antepenult?
Yes, but in Proto-Brithenig, as in many dialects of Vulgar Latin,
all stress shifted to the penult; when final vowels were lost,
the stress became uniformly final.

> 3) Did the sound change rules change sometime recently? It's been a while
> since I read through them, but I'd think it'd be something like *Caradag or
> *Caraethag for the person, and *Caradeg' or *Caraetheg' < *Cara(c)tacia for
> the place. No?
No.  This name was borrowed directly from Old British, not filtered
through Vulgar Latin, I think.

--
John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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        --Douglas Hofstadter

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