From: P&G
Message: 30934
Date: 2004-02-10
> While one might reasonably expect Latin to have the imperfectEarly Latin shows these forms, which survive to the Classical period
> *dormi:bam, such forms did not catch on,
>was this "b" a kind of a very/b/ betweeen vowels became /B/ (bilabial fricative), which could be confused
>short "w" which could dissapper between /e/ and /a/?
>The "dormie:bam" will explain the actualy "dormeam" and not "dormiam".