From: Mangiat (mangiat@tin.it)
Date: Sat Sep 08 2001 - 21:37:31 EST
Barry wrote:
> romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com writes:
> >I've encountered some trouble with Medolian. I just can't decide what to
> >do with the Vulgar Latin cluster -mn-. First thought was excrescence,
> >along the lines of Spanish: *homne > ômbre > oambre /'wambr@/. However,
> >"feambra" /'fjambra/ doesn't sound like a good word for "woman".
> >
> >We get to the Crunch:
> >How do other (con-)romancelangs deal with this cluster? Spanish does
> >excrescence, French assimilates, Italian does nothing (laziness...), so
> >what does everyone else do?
>
> I recently settled on what Montreiano does. What happened is:
>
> mn > nn > nr > ndr
>
> I did it this way because i didnt really want to do it like Spanish did,
> and [ndr] sounded like a possible and reasonable sound change.
Does this mean that annum gives andro, too???
Luca
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