Re: [tied] Latin verus

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:06:12 +0200, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>Though not the same form. The eyamples you gave here, they are supposed
>to derive from an Vlt. *cosinus , except Italian I guess since I don't
>see the s > g in Italian.

In Tuscan, si > s^i > z^i is a not uncommon development. So instead of the
expected literary *cosino we have vulgar Tuscan /kuz^ino/, written <cugino>
(although the even more vulgar Tuscan /huz^íno/ was of course not allowed
in the literay language).


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