OCULUM → ojo · œil · occhio
Spoken Latin squeezed OCULUM to oclu; then each sister softened the cl its own way: Spanish pushed it to the back of the throat, French dissolved it into a glide, Italian doubled the k and kept a y, Portuguese and Catalan stopped at the palatal l (olho, ull), and Romanian kept only a softened k (ochi).
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OCULUM
‘eye’
Classical Latin accusative
Classical Latin accusative
Classical Latin accusative
Classical Latin accusative
Classical Latin accusative
Classical Latin accusative
Spoken Latin squeezed OCULUM to oclu; then each sister softened the cl its own way: Spanish pushed it to the back of the throat, French dissolved it into a glide, Italian doubled the k and kept a y, Portuguese and Catalan stopped at the palatal l (olho, ull), and Romanian kept only a softened k (ochi).
Las formas están escritas en AFI, el Alfabeto Fonético Internacional: un símbolo, un sonido. Las sílabas tónicas llevan ˈ. Las fechas son aproximadas y solo se dan donde los manuales coinciden. 24 viajes de palabras.