From: Nik Taylor (fortytwo@gdn.net)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 14:57:17 EST
Adam Walker wrote:
> but QUINQUE > CINCI
In that case, it appears that Vulgar Latin for 5 was something like
_Cincu_/_Cinque_ depending on dialect. AFAIK, no Romance language has a
relex of qui- for the first syllable of "five"
>
> I don't find an example in the text I was consulting of a Latin word with
> QUO or QUU to show those developments, but I guess I could arrange for QU to
> go different directions depending on the following vowel.
>
> QUA > pa
> QUO > po
> QUU > pu
> QUI > chi
> QUE > whe
>
> Does this look realistic??
Except for the que -> whe part, I think so. Spanish, for example,
dropped the /w/ part before front vowels (que, /kwe/ -> que, /ke/; but
quattuor -> cuatro. So, the derounding before front vowels could've
preceded the /kw/ -> /p/ change. But, I would expect qui and que to be
treated the same.
Another possibility, if you want to have a really unique romance lang,
would be /kw/ -> /kf/, or /kw/ -> /xw/ -> /w_0/ -> /f/
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