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So, in the end, I will end up with dwen- > den- everywhere (barring later diphthongization of tonic short /e/ in some Neo-Aqileian dialect to dien-), but it might be nice to preserve a contemporaneous contrast in slightly conservative Kuriac dwenos vs. slightly innovative Ausonic denos.
And I really must settle on a name for the family, either Aqilonian or Aqileian. :) I had originally picked Aqilonian as a tribute to R.E. Howard's Aquilonia :) though I'm increasingly thinking Aqileian would be just as good a tribute and less obviously so. Howard's Aquilonia presumably takes its name from the Italian town of that name in Campania. I take the term Aqileian from the town of Aquileia, which probably has an IE origin if not necessarily specifically either a Celtic or Italic origin; it may or may not share the same first etymological element as Campanian Aquilonia. This latter shows up as an Oscan locative, I think something like Akudunniad, which is a bit funky and suggests that whatever is going on, this name is not from a PIE *kw, since becomes /p/ in Oscan as opposed retained <qu> in Latin .... but it might be good enough for my purposes. :) Also, "Aquilea" kind of suggests Greek names like "Achilles" and "Achaea" to the English-speaking ear, and though I don't have an actual Hellenic language branch in my "alternative IE" setting, I do actually try to give my "alternative Italic" a slightly Hellenic- looking "feel".
Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/