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Re: Digest 2 Apr

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 23:25
Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> That reminds me--how/why, insofar as the question is answerable, did
> Latin v [w] go to v [v] in the Romance languages

Yeah.  Like, Lat. vos -> Sp. vos, Fr. vous, It. voi; Lat. vivere -> Sp.
viver, Fr. vivre

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Aidan Grey <frterminus@...>
Raymond Brown <ray.brown@...>VW (was: Digest 2 Apr)