Re: [tied] Re: Back to Slava

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:27:49 +0000, tgpedersen
<tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 11:06:48 +0000, tgpedersen
>> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>>
>> >How would you deal with Latin hospes, sospes?
>>
>> From *hósti-potis regularly reduced to *hóspe(t)s.
>>
>
>Excuse my ignorance; which rule is that?

Reduction of unstressed /o/ (short vowels in general) in
medial syllables to /e/ ~ /i/ [hospit-]), and syncope.


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