MŪRUM → muro · mur · muro
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese all write muro (Portuguese says ˈmuɾu); Catalan simply dropped the ending (mur); French fronted the vowel to its signature y, the sound of lune and mur. Romanian has no heir of MŪRUM: a wall is zid, a Slavic loan, or perete, from Latin PARIETEM.
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MŪRUM
‘wall’
Classical Latin accusative
Classical Latin accusative
Classical Latin accusative
Classical Latin accusative
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Classical Latin accusative
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese all write muro (Portuguese says ˈmuɾu); Catalan simply dropped the ending (mur); French fronted the vowel to its signature y, the sound of lune and mur. Romanian has no heir of MŪRUM: a wall is zid, a Slavic loan, or perete, from Latin PARIETEM.
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.