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For questions related to Spanish, including but not limited to: Latin etymology of words, as well as translations between Latin and Spanish (in either direction)

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Verbum Hispānicum "mientras" significat "-m" fīnāle prōnūntiātum esse?

Mientras is clearly not just the regular outcome of applying Latin-to-Spanish sound changes to Latin dum interim. … García's paper is in Spanish, so I don't understand the details of the arguments. …
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If arm is 'arma', why is unarmed 'inermis' and not 'inarmis'?

I believe this is one of many examples of Latin vowel reduction in word-internal syllables. The basic pattern is that short vowels in word-internal syllables were reduced: the resulting vowel in Class …
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