Re: [tied] numeral correction

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:05:20 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>10-12-03 13:46, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>>>> rex re ra - F
>>>> pes piede ! pi - F
>>>> bos bue bu bou! F
>>>> nix neve ! nai nea! F
>>
>> This is simply ignorance on your part. These forms are from rege, pEde,
>> bOve and nEve.
>
>One obvious mistake here (perhaps just a typo): nivem > neve (not
>*nEve).

Not a typo. An Iberism. Spanish nieve, Portuguese /nEve/, Catalan neu (=
/neu/ not /nEu/ [*]) (also Occitan and a number of Italian dialects) point
to /nEve/, a byform of /neve/ under the influence of nebula (/nÉvOla/).

[*] In Catalan, /e/ > /E/ and /E/ > /e/.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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