Re: New Conlang: Þrjótran
| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 4, 2006, 18:26 |
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Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
[snip]
>
>>Also I see that Latin AE becomes e:. Actually AE merges with
>>*short* E in all the Romance languages: CAELUM > ciel etc.
>
>
> Ah, I see. Thanks for spotting that!
>
> Do you happen to know when this happened?
AE became monophthongized in unaccented syllables in Republican times,
i.e. during the 1st cent BCE. It spread to accented syllables during the
1st cent CE.
The change was to [E]. i.e. as Philip says, it merged with short e.
The much less common OE also merged with [e:], long e, at about the same
time.
On the other hand, AV (au) was retained in Vulgar Latin, and still
survives in Romanian. It generally monophthongized in Romance langs, but
the treatment is not uniform and is post-VL.
--
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