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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
> We need to start first with 'the rules': by saying that there
> isn't an ss > ssj Rule in Proto-Spanish (at least I 'couldn't
> identified' one)
>
> Marius
>
I mean here that the Rule is:
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1) Latin ss > Spanish s
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Latin passus 'step' > Spanish paso (Italian passo, Romanian pas(u))
Latin ossum 'bone' > Spanish hueso (Italian osso, Romanian os(u) )
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Notes:
1. that The Spanish rojo is not from Latin russus but from a Latin
roseus (I would say that the form was in fact rosseus) (as Romanian
ros,u /roshu/ is too)
2. the Spanish bajo supposed (again) a Latin *bassiu not directly a
Latin bassus
3. so only Latin /-ssy-/ > Spanish j is regular as we have already
discussed
Marius