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I like 'du' instead of newer 'b'. It is also in the Glosas Emilianenses. I ordered a latin etymological dictionary. Maybe there are more words with 'du' in it. --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@...> wrote: > > In working on some personal names, I determined that my Aqilonian/ > Aqileian conlang should definitely retain Archaic Latin dvenos (> > Latin bonus); I'll preserve both the initial consonant cluster and > the /e/. The question is what to do with that in the daughter > languages. I'm thinking that will probably end up as den-, certainly > denos in Ausonic but possibly perserved in Kuriac as dwenos. > Nevertheless, I'm imagining the retained Kuriac dw- > d- in its > further daughter languages (possibly under the influence of the > Kuriac/Ausonic koine, which would likewise have denos).