From: Joao S. Lopes Message: 48736 Date: 2007-05-28
It's not regular. Latin geminus > Portuguese ge^meo; Latin generalis > Portuguese geral. The anomalous shift could be explained as influenced by phrasal lenition: teu germanu > *teu yermanu
----- Mensagem original ---- De: tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Enviadas: Domingo, 27 de Maio de 2007 10:34:29 Assunto: [tied] Romance brother
Is g- > h- regular in Lat. germanus > Sp. hermano, and if not, what
happened? And how about Pt. irmão (e > i)?
Torsten
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