On Sun, 18 May 2003 16:05:11 +0200, alex_tiscali_dsl
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alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>>
>> You are confusing <o> "a" (< una) with <o> "her" (<illam).
>
>1)I have pretty trouble in seeing how "-lla" could give "wa", that is
>all I try to make from an "l" an "w2 and it seems is hard to pronounce
>it:-)
/l(l)/ > /l~/ [velarized] > /w/. See Portuguese Brasilian Brasil >
/braziw/, French cálidus > c^ald > c^aud > <chaud> /s^o/ "warm", Dutch
*kold > koud "cold", Polish <l/adno> /wadno/, etc. etc.
>2)which a "-lla" should be in "zi+ua" or in "stea+ua"?.
The article (-(i)llam). In the case of <stella> also the ending of
the word itself.
capra > caprã
capram illam > caprã-wa > caprãa > capra
This is the normal development: -wa becomes -a, -ãa > -a.
diem > zi
diem illam > zi-wa = ziua (but also: zi-le)
After a vowel other than -ã, -wa can remain unchanged, as in this
case.
stellam > steawã > (Arom.) steao, (DRom.) stea
The normal development of -wã- is -o- (Aromanaian steawã > steao).
But in final position, Daco-Romanian has -wã > -ã (stea-wã > steaã)
and -aã > -a.
stellam illam > steawã-wa > steao-a > steaua
Here we have regular -wã- > -o, and regular -wa > -a everywhere,
giving stea-o-a > steaua, as expected.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...