Re: [tied] Romanian Verb Endings and Substratum influence (repost)

On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 23:23:44 +0200, Miguel Carrasquer
<mcv@...> wrote:

>On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 15:05:12 +0000, tgpedersen
><tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
>>I don't get it; *-s > *-j ? How's that supposed to happen,
>>phonologically?
>
>Probably in a way similar to what is happening in Brazilian
>Portuguese right now. In Brazilian, a final -s after a
>stressed vowel becomes -js (mas > /májs/, voz > /vójs/,
>Jesús > /z^esújs/, tres > /tréjs/, vocês > /voséjs/).
>Drop the -s (something that also happens in Brazilian
>Portuguese), and you have the Eastern Romance situation.

Ah, I forgot to mention. How did vin(um) "wine" become
/vik/ in Northern Piemontese? No cheating by looking it up
in Rohlfs.


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