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Variation between syllabic and non-syllabic V: in what contexts is it possible?
Allen's Vox Latina, 2nd edition (1988) metions that there is occasional "poetic interchange" in Latin of syllabic [u] and non-syllabic [w], mentioning trisyllabic silua and disyllabic genva ...
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Does /l̥/ in reconstructed Latin represent a voiceless (alveolar) lateral approximate or something else?
Latin facultās presumably developed from an original *faklitāts (via *fakl̥tāts > *fakiltāts > facultās) . . .
—Merriam-Webster
Does the /l̥/ in *fakl̥tāts represent a voiceless (alveolar) ...
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Why had the word “gold” morphed from “ausum” into “aurum”?
Etymologists/Linguists posit that the prefix for gold in Proto-Indo-European was:
*aus-
Which gave way to *auzom in Proto-Italic languages and ausum in Classical Latin.
At some point, ausum ...
