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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: Remnant of the future
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 18:57:54 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de