From: Brian M. Scott Message: 45855 Date: 2006-08-27
At 12:27:30 PM on Sunday, August 27, 2006, Petr Hrubis
wrote:
> Now, could somebody possibly describe the regular
> phonological changes for me that lead to the Spanish
> "arbol", please?
It's not a regular change: in Spanish the second /r/ of
Latin <arbor> was dissimilated to /l/. Dissimilation also
occurred in Italian <albero>, but it affected the first /r/
instead.