Re[2]: [tied] Negation

At 2:06:07 PM on Saturday, December 6, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
wrote:

> From: "Richard Wordingham"
> <richard.wordingham@...>

>> If _eriter_ is inherited, where does the intervocalic /t/
>> come from? Ancestral Latin *t would have dropped.

> I don't know,

It was preserved by the influence of the adjacent /d/ after
the loss of /i/: -T'D-, -D'T-, -T'T-, -TT- > OFr. /t(t)/.

Brian