Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 12:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: latin viridis (it was green albanian)
> Lat. i > e (merger) > ie (diphthongisation) > iea (breaking) > ia
> (triphthong simplification) > a (loss of glide after a labial)
>
> But if you haven't memorised those changes yet, you probably never
> will, so what's the point of repeating the whole thing ad nauseam?
Hmmmm. It seems I dont find another example of latin "i" becoming "a"
for your diphtongisation of short "i" in "ie",
the thriphtong in "iea", the simplification in "ia" and after this "a".
I take just the "i" now and I ignore the "d". So we have:
virdia > vierdia >vieardia > viardia >vardia, this is what you mind.
And this from a short /i/ or /e/
OK, let see:
lepore= short e-> iepure
legis = long e-> lege
ligo= short i-> lega
lingo= short i -> linge
venio = short e-> veni
video = short i -> vedea
frigus= long i -> frig
long or short , there is no "a" nowhere from an "i" in Latin.
Piotr , can it be there is no example there ? I tried to find an "i">"a"
in all examples given by Rosetti & Co and I don't find any. Are you sure
on what you say there or you just are wrong informed you has there in
Latin "i" > "a"?
Alex