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Re: [romanceconlang] Re: Fortunatian Words Descended From fa-fo



--- habarakhe4 <theophilus88@hidden.email> wrote:
> fa-fo _includes_ fe and fi, and I haven't reached
> fu.
> Is C-a hue [hue] or [we]?

Sorry, I'm a bit behind replying to some emails.  To
answer your question, C-a hue is [hue].  There are
couplets in the language like huideli and fidu which
both mean faithful, but the first is native and the
second is a learned borrowing.  So in native words I
have fa hue hui fo fu, but in borrowed words fe and fi
do exist.  This rule seems to have gone inactive
around the time of the Reconquista or perhapsa a bit
earlier.  And there is atleast one example -- felari
-- of a word that did not change.  I have no
explination for why this word is not *huelari.

Adam