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

17-12-03 02:12, richard.wordingham@... wrote:

> Alex hasn't diphthongised it! He's just applied the rule that
> unstressed Latin short /i/ usually becomes /e/.

All right. My mistake. I though he had something like -e.a > -ea.a > -ea
in mind.

> If he used my
> encoding of the Romanian sound changes at
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.wordingham/sounds/prep5d_rom.htm
> , it would tell him that scambia:re should yield sc1mbeare and that
> scambia:s should yield sc1mbea. I didn't have any data for the
> development of /bj/. (If you scroll down the sound changes, you
> will see the comment 'Yodicisation - this needs more work.')

Well, it does. As the prevocalic *i was a glide in Vulgar Latin, -Cia-
doesn't end up as -Cea- (except orthographically, when the function of
<e> is just diacritic, but that doesn't happen after <b>).

Piotr