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

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 34988
Date: 2004-11-07

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Kim Bastin <kimb@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 18:18:09 +0100, you wrote:
>
> >
> >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
> >
> >

> Other examples of exactly the same series of changes are:
>
> resultum (resilio, cf. salio)

[AK]
And insultum (insilio, cf. salio)
>
> adultus (adolesco, cf. alo)

[AK]
And sepultum (cf. sepelio)
But everything is in vain, Alex is not ready to accept or understand
any kind of such conjugation paradigm of Latin verbs, that I have
repeated to him many times.

> Kim Bastin

Konushevci