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

--- 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

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