SEPTEM → siete · sept · sette
Five sisters swallowed the p — French only pretends otherwise in spelling — but Romanian kept it: șapte, the same pt it made out of kt in noapte. Spanish and Romanian broke the e even in a closed syllable, something Italian and French never do.
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SEPTEM
‘seven’
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Five sisters swallowed the p — French only pretends otherwise in spelling — but Romanian kept it: șapte, the same pt it made out of kt in noapte. Spanish and Romanian broke the e even in a closed syllable, something Italian and French never do.
Forms are written in IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet: one symbol, one sound. Stressed syllables carry ˈ. Dates are approximate and given only where the handbooks agree. 24 word journeys.