Re: Banin again
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 15, 2001, 10:03 |
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En réponse à daniel andreasson <daniel.andreasson@...>:
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> {ie} is in this case a falling diphthong. I don't know if
> it was in Old French.
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No, it was rising /i_e/, and later was monophtongized as /e/ (Old French had
even more diphtongues than Modern Portuguese, but later monophtonguized them
all. Hey, it makes me think of a definition for John Cowan's list of essentials:
Old French was essentially Modern Portuguese as spoken by a Frank soldier
pretending to know Latin :) ).
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr