From: Brian M. Scott Message: 58292 Date: 2008-05-03
At 8:21:00 AM on Friday, May 2, 2008, fournet.arnaud wrote:
[...]
> There is no indication vetulus ever was **veklus in
> pre-French Romance.
This is a well-known Late Latin development: when unstressed
penultimate vowels were lost between /t/ and /l/, the
resulting /tl/ was replaced by /kl/. Note 'vetulus non
veclus and 'vitulus non viclus' (Appendix Probi).