Re: Latin -bs : just written or phonetic?

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 67922
Date: 2011-07-22

Well, depends on who done learned you Latin. They learned me Latin in Texas so ... Actually, I've been told that it was pronounced unvoiced, as is rex < *regs, so <urbs> = /urps/.

From: Joao S. Lopes <josimo70@...>
To: Cybalist <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 8:31 AM
Subject: [tied] Latin -bs : just written or phonetic?

 
What can be said about Latin nouns with bs-endings, like urbs, orbs, caelebs? The Nominative suffix -bs was just a written form of an older *-ps, influenced by oblique cases, or represent a <bz> spelling? PIE have consonantal stems ending in labials?

JS Lopes