[tied] Re: root *pVs-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> I've no decent source for Italian historical phonology. One
> of the minimal sources on hand says that Italian /sy/
> regularly yields /z^/, spelled <gi>, the yod not affecting
> the preceding vowel, so that one would indeed expect *bagio
> (as in <cagione> from <occa:sio:, -o:nis>).

I remember that it only happens when the vowel preceding sy was
unstressed (that is, V-tone s y > V-tone z y > V-tone dz^ y V etc.).
Other V+tone s y > V+tone ts^ y before voicing of any intervocalic s.