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Re: [romconlang] Latin short o in Spanish rosa?



Carl Edlund Anderson a scris:

> Wow, I knew that Romance langs often borrow back from Latin, sometimes
> replacing or supplementing existing forms, but I hadn't expected a word
> like rose to be borrowed, at least not so early or so generally through
> Romance!  Thanks for the explanation.

Well, I would not call it "borrowing". It's rather a bookish, high style word
from "learned" society, cf. one of Mary's titles 'Lumen Caeli, Sancta Rosa'. The
words of this type usually belong to the second layer: Fr. _catholique_ does not
show regular change /ka/ > /tSa/, as in L. _cattus_ > OFr. _chat_ [tSat] > MnFr.
[Sa]; Es. _siglo_ 'century' < L. _saeculum_ demonstrates that it kept unstressed
/u/ long enough to make /k/ > /g/ as in L. _focum_ > Es. _fuego_, cf. L.
_oculus_ > _*oclu_ > OEs. _ojo_ [oZo] > MnEs. [oxo] (/i/ there is a result of
contaction of diphthong /ie/ in closed syllable).

> I've been working on an "alternative Latin"

Wishing successes,
-- Yitzik