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Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: Remnant of the future Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 07:23:07 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <hpv61j9ls0ko82b54onsu0l7om08vmrpqd@4ax.com> References: <o9ai0j1mhql0eupat9fvo7nsi876v8jk2i@4ax.com> <39u11jdemkrit66korhjukug3u3ihbh0de@4ax.com> <uurind$23otj$1@dont-email.me> <2qn51jd571p8upi1o19uti1q64toj1ksp0@4ax.com> <slrnv15r5i.8qh.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 05:23:08 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="661c781a97b2b6adb5faf1e7ad008370"; logging-data="3488331"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18eeCUKARsYyqfvdxv0I/Em" Cancel-Lock: sha1:8zic00gqS33XwYxV01i7k5Moj9s= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Bytes: 1818 Sun, 7 Apr 2024 18:57:54 -0000 (UTC): Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> scribeva: >On 2024-04-07, Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote: > >[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. >> >> How would ‘es’ keep its s, > >The same way other second person forms keep their -s: >Final -s is conserved from Latin to Portuguese. > >> when ‘est’ lost the t AND the s? > >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.