Re: [tied] Latin verus

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> In conclusion, all that [the various S.Italian forms I gave earlier]
> came
> to result in the type cosinprimu, from which in the end the -primu was
> eliminated, when it stood in alternation with cosin-segondo and
> analogous
> forms. This is the only tenable explanation of this abbreviation,
> and one
> should abandon arbitrary explanations such as a whimsical or infantile
> shortening directly of CONSOBRINUS to CO(N)SINUS, which was given in
> the
> past, to be discarded for the reasons that I detailed in my work
> [Dicc.
> crítico etimológico de la lengua castellana, IV, 1066b8-30].
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

And it seems very resonable. This is the kind of explanation which makes
sense not all this arbitrary hip-hop with so much loosing sound from the
known Latin word.

Alex