Re: [tied] Re: the surname LOPES/LOPEZ : name LOPO/LOPE : Latin, Ce

On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:06:15 -0000, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>>When -e was restored (modern: príncipe, noche, corte, presente,
>>romance), it was also restored on apocopated forms like Lop or
>>Felip, giving Lope and Felipe.
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>> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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>Might this have been a Castillian attempt to (re)assert the
>independence of their language from Catalan?

Hardly. Why did they not (re)assert independence after -r, -l, -n, -d, -s, -z?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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