Re: [tied] "u" versus "a"

Kim Bastin wrote:

>
> There's no problem at all with u from a here. Compare _salsus_ "salty;
> witty" vs. _insulsus_ "unsalted; boring". It's the outcome of a series
> of regular sound change beginning with a > e in post-initial closed
> syllables (cf. _factum_ vs. _infectum_), followed by changes triggered
> by l pingue, as Richard implies in his post.
>
> Kim Bastin

this regular change wont explain "salto" in this case. BTW, I verifyied all
the latin roots where whe have an *sVl-; apparently there is none whith a
such change where if V= a, the change is "o,u". And I would say that is
regular to do not have a such change in the vowel which is in the very root.
Are you sure insulsus is not a late Latin term after the Germanic influence
on this language? I cannot help but I just think at German "s�lze" now:-)

Alex