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On 15 Aug 2004, at 17:32, Padraic Brown wrote:
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.
D'oh! I should have thought more along those lines myself if I had simply remembered that the e in deus is short and subject to diphthongization to ie in Spanish.
Thanks, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/