Re: fortis , f- >>

For instance (Oscan-Umbrian loanwords)?

2012/12/8, stlatos <sean@...>:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "dgkilday57" <dgkilday57@...> wrote:
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>> A doublet like <bortitz>/<portitz> from Lat. <fortis> in this view
>> requires no intermediate language, merely an earlier and later stage of
>> borrowing the same word.
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> I don't think 2 stages of borrowing are needed. If Bq. had no f, then
> either f > p or f > v ( > b later) would be equally good substitutions.
> This is sim. to how L. borrowed Osc-U. words with -v- as either -b- or -f-
> (before w > v in L.).
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