Re[2]: [tied] Re: root *pVs-

At 7:39:07 PM on Saturday, July 7, 2007, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> We have Italian Ambrogio < Ambrosius
> which, unlike cagione < oca:sio: has a stressed vowel
> before Romance /sy, zy/
> There has to be a corollary to this rule. I don't know
> if Ambrosius has a long or short /o/

Presumably short, like the adjective.

> --could that have something to do with the outcome?

I'd not expect it to: in Vulgar Latin the quantity
distinction was already replaced by a quality distinction.

Brian