Sujet : Re: Remnant of the future
De : rh (at) *nospam* rudhar.com (Ruud Harmsen)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 08. Apr 2024, 07:23:07
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Sun, 7 Apr 2024 18:57:54 -0000 (UTC): Christian Weisgerber
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naddy@mips.inka.de> scribeva:
On 2024-04-07, Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:
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[Portuguese "és"]
I find it complicated that it would be anything other than the normal
evolution of latin 'es', but I haven't read on the subject.
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How would ‘es’ keep its s,
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The same way other second person forms keep their -s:
Final -s is conserved from Latin to Portuguese.
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when ‘est’ lost the t AND the s?
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Not a regular sound change. Given it's extremely high frequency,
an irregular reduction isn't that surprising. And again, the 2./3.
person clash after regular loss of -t had to be resolved in some
way.
Makes sense.
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