Re: [tied] Re: root *pVs-

We have Italian Ambrogio < Ambrosius
which, unlike cagione < oca:sio: has a stressed vowel
before Romance /sy, zy/
There has to be a corollary to this rule. I don't know
if Ambrosius has a long or short /o/ --could that have
something to do with the outcome?
given that ba:sius is followed by a short /u/

--- stlatos <stlatos@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> > I've no decent source for Italian historical
> phonology. One
> > of the minimal sources on hand says that Italian
> /sy/
> > regularly yields /z^/, spelled <gi>, the yod not
> affecting
> > the preceding vowel, so that one would indeed
> expect *bagio
> > (as in <cagione> from <occa:sio:, -o:nis>).
>
> I remember that it only happens when the vowel
> preceding sy was
> unstressed (that is, V-tone s y > V-tone z y >
> V-tone dz^ y V etc.).
> Other V+tone s y > V+tone ts^ y before voicing of
> any intervocalic s.
>
>
>

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