Richard Wordingham wrote:
> A Classical form
> <pinsatum> (whose existence I am not sure of) would yield Romanian
> *pisat.
>
> What other evidence is there for <pisatum> having short /i/?
>
> Richard.
why should be reduced the "ns" group to "s" when the "nC" group ( if C=
stop or siflant) is very stable, the only chnage which is to underline
is the change of "nC" > "mC" when C= labial.
This is not usually in Rom. and it must have happened already in Latin
(ns > s) but I wonder under which circumstances.
At the end of the word, in adjectives from participium the "ns" is kept
: nins, plans, tuns. etc.
One more question for Latin. How is to explain the participium in "s"
here? It appears interesting the suffix change here for instance ningeo
> nins. I am sure there is no explanation of phonetical -geo > -ns thus
how does it comes that from the normal forms which ends in "-geo" one
has participium forms in "-ns"?
Is this just in Latin to observe ( explanation?) or is this in other IE
languages to observe too?
Alex