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At 15:09 18.3.2004, Adam Walker wrote:
>Very interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing a
>text. Any idea how far off that might be?
Since I'm chronically dilatory and actually should be
writing a term paper it might be some time off...
Also I'm still working on the grammar and have to
decide what Persian and Arabic words to use.
>--- Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@hidden.email> wrote:
>
>> Raamaniyaan Grand Master Plan
>>
>> As for the vowel changes I'm not yet fully satisfied
>> with
>> them. In particular /u/ will still be far too rare.
>
>I end up with a lot of /u/ in Carrajena since /o/
>becomes /u/ before a nasal other than /m/ and between
>any two nasals. Also initial Latin AU became /u/ in
>proto-C-a (medial tonic and nontonic AU do other
>things), but probably the largest number of new |u|'s
>come from Latin L in clusters though it usually ends
>up as /w/.
It gives in some places and takes in others! :)
I *could* make AU > u, but that would be the
very same as in Slvanjec...
>> Examples:
>> totus > taad 'whole'
>> ventus > bond
>> vocem > baaz
>> volatilis > uledel
>> volvitare > ulvedaar
>> vomicare > umigaar
>> vulturius > ulduzh
>
>You skiped Latin U.
Ooops!
>How would words like ubero, udo,
>ulcero, ullatenus, umbilicaris, uncialis, urbicarius,
>usiatio, uterque, uva, uxoratus turn out?
Not all of these words are found in Meyer-Lübke,
and I'm too lazy to go and find the Latin dictionary,
but here go the closest equivalents:
uber > uvor (>ur?)
udum > uy
umbilicarem > ombeligar
uncialem > onjal
urbicarium > orvigezh
ustio > osht
uterque > osarg
uva > uve, u'e
uxoratum > oshaarad
/BP 8^)
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