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Carl Edlund Anderson skrev:
On 28 Jan 2010, at 05:45 , Capsicum wrote:That is getting complicated. I will pronouce '-aci' with 'k' because of that rule in Italian that 'c' is 'ch' when preceded by a stressed penult except in the word 'amici' and because you say that it is celtic 'k'.Though surely speakers wouldn't have worried about which language the original /k/ came from, but would have (generally) treated all /k/ before front vowels in the same way?
When reading Latin in post-Carolingian times, certainly, but Italian -i is usually actually derived from Latin -OS and -ES (apparently something like /os/ > /oz/ > /oZ/ > /oj/ > /ej/ > /i/) so that in early times there was probably some confusion when reading (Vulgar) Latin texts, before the Carolingian reform caused a conceptual split between Latin and the vernacular. Outside the areas with the -OS > -i change there was probably no such hesitation, though. BTW the reason that _amici_ is different is probably because the most frequently used form of that word was the *vocative* plural! /BP