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Carl Edlund Anderson > This is why I wanted to go back and ask opinions on the syllabification > and stress pattern .... Though I suppose if the "i" gets attracted to > the /b/ as a /j/ in "Vulgar Albionika" anyway, then perhaps I have to > figure out how to deal with /al.'bjo.ni:.ka:/ anyway. I couldn't think > of many Latin words containing /'bjo/ to use as guides, though! IIRC, in Spanish original CjV glides become jCV, e.g. sapio /sapjo:/ > *saipo /sajpo/ > sepo (could be wrong on the forms there), so what about: Albionika /al'bjoni:ka:/ > /ajl'bOnika/ > /el'bweniga/ Elbueniga (if you follow Gaulish stress) -or- Albjonika /albjo'ni:ka/ > /ajlbO'nika/ > /elbo'niga/ Elboniga (if you follow Latinate stress) There's a third alternative of course. Many vowels which ended up in hiatus in Brythonic (through loss of *p or *s) inserted a /j/ glide: so /albijoni:ka/, which if following Spanish-style sound changes with Latin stress would become: "Albejoniga" /albexo'niga/. However, the first /i/ would more likely be dropped as it's intertonic, which leaves you back where you started, with the /bjo/ cluster. Another alternative: you could use the /bjue/ glide, which could then become /biBe/ "Albiveniga" Dan