From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 70532
Date: 2012-12-09
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
> <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@...> wrote:
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>> Where's "Oscan-Umbrian /v/"?
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> Borrowed words like ro:bus with eu > ou > o: instead of u: (as in native
> L. words) indicate Oscan-Umbrian, like L., voiced internal bh > ph > f > v ,
> but, unlike L., no v > b . In borrowing a word with -v-, which didn't
> exist at that stage in L., it was replaced by either b or f, both one
> feature away, creating doublets like ro:bus : ru:fus (if f > v only occurred
> in 1 O-U language (with ou > o:), it still would be hard to tell all the
> details, but that's not important). All that matters is it's analogous to
> v- > f- \ b- or f- > bortitz \ portitz , not to a two-stage borrowing (in
> which the rest of, say, bortitz \ portitz, would likely be dif.).
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>> 2012/12/8, stlatos <sean@...>:
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>> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
>> > <bhrihstlobhrouzghdhroy@> wrote:
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>> >> For instance (Oscan-Umbrian loanwords)?
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>> >> 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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>> > Sihler mentioned ro:bus : ru:fus, *londH- > lumbi: = loins (and some
>> > related words). He compared it to opt. OE borrowings of v (vannus >
>> > fann,
>> > v- > berbena, etc.). Either shows the reality of what I proposed.
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