Timeline for Absence of vowel combination /ou/ in Spanish
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| May 14, 2018 at 21:50 | vote | accept | iacobo | ||
| May 14, 2018 at 11:42 | answer | added | iacobo | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 8, 2018 at 10:07 | comment | added | iacobo | @jknappen Apologies, I didn't mean specifically diphthongs but all occurrences of /ou/, including as hiatus e.g. bovis > bou; novus > nou (Cat.). Looking at these examples I'm thinking that the case may be that many instances of Latin 'ou' diphthongised the 'o' as 'ue' (as it occurred on a stressed syllable e.g. buey, nuevo) | |
| May 8, 2018 at 9:42 | history | edited | iacobo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarified title.
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| May 8, 2018 at 9:31 | comment | added | Sir Cornflakes | Where should it come from? Latin did not have an ou diphthong (but au and eu), and Latin ob- is preserved in Spanish as /oβ/ ~ /ob/. | |
| May 8, 2018 at 6:22 | history | edited | iacobo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarified I was looking for the vowel sequence.
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| May 8, 2018 at 0:55 | comment | added | Mark Beadles | to be sure, noúmeno is not a diphthong /ou/ but disyllabic /o.ˈu/ | |
| May 7, 2018 at 21:30 | answer | added | Javier Arias | timeline score: -2 | |
| May 7, 2018 at 19:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackLinguist/status/993572512498937856 | ||
| May 7, 2018 at 14:52 | history | asked | iacobo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |