Re: [tied] Re: alveolar stop - alveolar lateral alterations

From: P&G
Message: 36937
Date: 2005-04-06

> Could be this 'l' a transcription of another sound,
> like a fricative D?

If these words are dialect borrowings into Latin, all that we can say is
that the Romans heard the sound as /l/. That leaves open the possibility
that it was phonetically some other sound, such as a fricative, in the
dialect from which the borrowings occurred.

Peter