Re: [tied] Re:

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 27720
Date: 2003-11-27

27-11-03 14:41, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> And Spanish _plaza_ has to be an intra-Romance loan - Latin pl-
> yields Spanish ll-. I suspect Portuguese _praça_ is also a loan.

Good points. I was writing in haste and gave the first example that
occurred to me to illustrate the development of the palatalised
consonant. Anyway, whatever the complications, the merger of -eu- and
-iu- is Late Latin.

Piotr