Re: [tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:40:18 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>> The Rom. word "schimba", unlike the Romance examples you gave here
>> cannot derive from *ex-cambiare.
>
>Indeed, for even if [mbj] simply becomes [mb], we should get *scâmba.

*excambiare should give *scâmbia. Subsequently, probably due to the same
metathesis that we have in *abia > aiba, we got *scâimbá > schimbá.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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