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--- Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@hidden.email> wrote: > > I often read that Spanish _dios_ is a > descendant of Latin nom.sing. > deus -- and fair enough. But can someone > explain to me how the initial > vowel in Spanish ended up being /i/? I would > have expected /e/ to > survive: **deos. Is it some kind of > interaction between the /e/ as a > glide and the following /u/ of _deus_? As I understand it, ie reduced to i before a and o in Spanish, so deus > dieos > dios. Compare with E(G)O > ieo > yo. For what it's worth, Kerno keeps the ie: deus > dieos. Mind you, the pronunciation is more in line with the Spanish: MK /djeus/ > ModK /ZEws/. Compare with /jeo/ > /ZEo/. Padraic. ===== 'n aon le prims, bes et vrach; 'n aon le cerch, fucieoir et lugh; 'n aon le ters, dofert, afert; 'n aon le coueart, y chorn ce quei 'm tetulli-el! [Dumnonian] -- Ill Bethisad -- <http://www.geocities.com/elemtilas/ill_bethisad> Come visit The World! -- <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> .