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2020
Gallo-Romance lenition in Germanic loanwords
Michiel de Vaan
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Abstract One of the earliest changes affecting Western Romance before the end of the Roman Empire was the lenition of intervocalic *p, *t, *k to *b, *d, *g. We find its effects in a number of Romance loanwords in West Germanic. The word for ‘market’ has not played a role in this discussion because it is often attested with t in the West Germanic languages. Still, there are strong indications that the word was borrowed into Germanic as *markadu after the lenition of intervocalic t in Romance. Its phonological make-up is comparable to that of Latin vocatus, which was borrowed into Germanic as *fogadu.
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Michiel de Vaan
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- Tahun Terbit
- 2020
- Bahasa
- en
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- DOI
- 10.1075/nowele.00040.vaa
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- Open Access ✓