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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> consobrinus > cusurin in Arom; it applys the rule /o/>/u/
before /nC/
> conora > cununã in DacoRom; it applys the rule /o/ > /u/
before /n/(
> Observ. 1)
> conventum > cuvânt in DacoRom; it applys the same rule
> cognatus > cumnat in DacoRom: it applys /mn/ ( I guess ther is ogn
> omn
> > umn)
> consecrare seems to have not been preserved in Rom.
> Obs. 1
>
> from the example of corona > cununã seems that the assimilation (if
> assimilation) of /r/ to /n/ must have took place before /o/ > /u/
and on
> the both /o/ should have been no stress. Actualy the word "cunûnã"
has
> the stress on the second "u".
You're talking utter tripe. I strongly suggest you try using some
version of the Sound Change Applier before you post. If use the
incomplete work at
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.wordingham/sounds/prep5d_rom.htm
and put both coro:na and cono:na into the box for the ancestral
words, and click on 'apply', you will get curuna& and cunun&. If
you want to understand why, look at the messages. Unless you have
unticked 'print rules', the rules will be shown in the messages when
they are applied. If you look carefully, you will see the stress
applied to the middle symbol.
The only way to get the wrong answer for the vowels is to enter
corona i.e. all short vowels. That yields corun&, but the stress is
on the first syllable. If you want to see the stress easily, change
the 'sound change' X//_ (just after the comment 'Clean up the
spelling') to .//_ . Stressed vowels will then be shown by
exclamation marks before them in the 'derived words'.
Richard.