From: alex
Message: 38314
Date: 2005-06-03
>> It is the procedure one use for establishing the etymology:"it is inby all respect, you cannot ignore the evidence. And the evidence shows
>> another romance something similar, then is this for sure from Latin".
>>
>> We take an *accu for explaining the "a" in acest, but we need an
>> *acce for explaining the "c^".
>
> No we don't.
>
>> The *accu does not fit since the "u"
>> does not go syncoped as you put it on the paper (akwest > ak(w)est >
>> ac^est).
>
> Yes, that's exactly what happens.
>
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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