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Re: [romconlang] Names

hmmm.... St Mazda? I have a mental image of a wizened old man with a long beard and a halo, driving around in a little red spots convertible!!! :o 

Peter
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Bennett" <paul-bennett@hidden.email> 
To: <romconlang@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 3:59 AM
Subject: Re: [romconlang] Names



On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 14:18:43 -0500, Peter Collier
<petecollier@hidden.email> wrote:


I eventually came up with the following:

Matthew    Matda           /matda:/    not too sure about the /td/ here,
I think it might in fact become /mada:/ <Madda>?


Are either of the following rules worth considering? They seem like
plausible outcomes of trying to maintain the [-v][+v] transition in the
/td/ cluster.

 td > sd (and maybe thence > zd)

 td > cd > Cd (and maybe thence > j\d)



Paul