Re: [tied] Re: alveolar stop - alveolar lateral alterations

From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 36943
Date: 2005-04-06

In Umbrian w- > l-, e.g., Vofionu < *Leudhiyono-
 
 
Joao SL

P&G <G&P@...> wrote:
> Could be this 'l' a transcription of another sound,
> like a fricative D?

If these words are dialect borrowings into Latin, all that we can say is
that the Romans heard the sound as /l/.  That leaves open the possibility
that it was phonetically some other sound, such as a fricative, in the
dialect from which the borrowings occurred.

Peter


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