Re: Orbis Latinus
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 2, 2001, 19:47 |
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At 00:38 2001-01-02 +0100, Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>Oh, now I understand how Spanish macho and French mâle could be cognates:
>in the
>first case, only the "u" was lost, leading to "masclo", while in the
>second, the
>whole syllable "cu" was lost, leading to "maslo". Then the usual sound changes
>of both languages led to /matSo/ "macho" and /mAl/ "mâle" (now simply
>pronounced /mal/).
Actually all of western Romance went through the *masklu stage. The change
/sk/ > /s/ was regular in French under certain conditions which I dont
remember off the top of my head. Cf. *frankisku > francais!
/BP 8^)>
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