Origin of French hériter (was: Negation)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

>
> At 2:06:07 PM on Saturday, December 6, 2008, Arnaud Fournet
> wrote:
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> > 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)/.

By the sound rules yielding French,
he:ré:ditat > *eret(t)e
he:re:ditá:re > *eret(t)er

No _eriter_ in sight!

I hadn't queried the vowel because in one entry in my dictionary I saw
the erronous _he:re:di:ta:re_

Richard.