From: stlatos
Message: 70432
Date: 2012-11-07
>There's also (apparent) *pullastrum > poldro \ potro , which seems like it could have undergone part of the changes as above, depending on timing and intermediate stages, which also shows optional change.
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@> wrote:
> >
> > At 6:26:41 PM on Sunday, November 4, 2012, stlatos wrote:
> >
> > > The above opt. needn't look strange, since a similar one
> > > is needed for mucho / muy no matter what the middle stages
> > > were.
> >
> > Nothing optional is needed here.
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>
> Wrong. There's Por. muito, abutre, cutelo vs (O)Sp muyt, buitre, cuchiello, with no reg. apparent in either (or between).
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> One is the regular outcome
> > of (U)LT- when the T remains syllable-initial; the other is
> > the regular outcome when the T becomes final, as in MULT(U)
> > > muyt, later muy.
> >
>