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Part 6 — Historical derivations

Sound correspondences

Each section traces a Latin sound to its Spanish and Portuguese outcomes. Open one for the full corpus of cognate pairs behind it.

6.1.1 · 819 pairs
Unstressed /o/ → /o/ & /u/
6.1.2 · 118 pairs
Stressed /o/ → /o/ & /ɔ/
6.1.3 · 315 pairs
/u/ → /u/ & /u/
6.1.4 · 222 pairs
Stressed /o/ that stays → /o/ & /o/
6.2.1 · 604 pairs
/i/ → /i/ & /i/
6.2.2 · 417 pairs
Unstressed /e/ → /e/ & /ɨ/
6.2.3 · 101 pairs
Tonic /e/ → /e/ & /e/
6.3.1 · 1162 pairs
Unstressed /a/ → /a/ & /ɐ/ *(the general case)*
6.4.1 · 25 pairs
The *-ia* / *-io* / *-ario* suffixes: ja → ja & jɐ; jo → jo & ju
6.4.2 · 11 pairs
The ⟨gua⟩ / ⟨cua⟩ cluster: wa → wa & wɐ
6.5.1 · 22 pairs
/ɔ/ → /we/ & /ɔ/: Portuguese stays open
6.5.2 · 20 pairs
/ɔ/ → /we/ & /o/: metaphony closes the masculine -o
6.6.1 · 27 pairs
/ɛ/ → /je/ & /ɛ/
6.6.2 · 26 pairs
Where Spanish did not diphthongize: /ɛ/ → /e/ & /ɛ/
6.7.1 · 19 pairs
/aw/ → /o/ & /ow/
6.8.1 · 240 pairs
/an/ → /an/ & /ɐ̃/
6.8.2 · 12 pairs
/am/ → /am/ & /ɐ̃/
6.8.3 · 21 pairs
/an/ (before velar) → /aŋ/ & /ɐ̃/
6.8.4 · 9 pairs
The *-ão* convergence: *-ción/-ção*, /on/ → /ion/ & /ɐ̃w/
6.9.1 · 58 pairs
/en/ → /en/ & /ẽ/
6.9.2 · 36 pairs
Stressed /ɛn/ → /jen/ & /ẽ/ (Spanish diphthong)
6.9.3 · 29 pairs
/in/ → /in/ & /ĩ/
6.10.1 · 36 pairs
/ɛn/ → /jen/ & /ẽ/
6.11.1 · 42 pairs
/on/ → /on/ & /õ/
6.11.2 · 13 pairs
/om/ → /om/ & /õ/
6.11.3 · 6 pairs
Word-final /on/ → /on/ & /ɐ̃w/
6.11.4 · 14 pairs
/un/ → /un/ & /ũ/
6.12.1 · 742 pairs
/ɾ/ → /ɾ/ & /ɾ/
6.12.2 · 289 pairs
/r/ → /ɾ/ & /ɾ/ (clusters and inter-vocalic)
6.12.3 · 1 pairs
Coda /r/ → /r/ & /ɾ/ (Spanish trill, Portuguese tap)
6.12.4 · 93 pairs
Word-initial strong /r/ → /r/ & /ʁ/
6.13.1 · 18 pairs
/rr/ → /r/ & /ʁ/
6.14.1 · 433 pairs
/m/ → /m/ & /m/
6.15.1 · 315 pairs
/n/ → /n/ & /n/
6.15.2 · 23 pairs
The -ino/-ina family: n → n & ɲ
6.16.1 · 44 pairs
e + n + V: /n/ → /n/ & /∅/ (→ diphthong)
6.16.2 · 44 pairs
o/u + n + V: /n/ → /n/ & /∅/ (→ hiatus)
6.17.1 · 22 pairs
/ɲ/ → /ɲ/ & /ɲ/
6.18.1 · 14 pairs
Latin -MN-: /mn/ → /ɲ/ & /n/
6.18.2 · 6 pairs
Latin -NN-: /nn/ → /ɲ/ & /n/
6.19.1 · 259 pairs
/l/ → /l/ & /l/
6.19.2 · 132 pairs
Word-final /l/ → /l/ & /ɫ/
6.19.3 · 32 pairs
Intervocalic /l/ → /l/ & /∅/
6.19.4 · 132 pairs
Coda /l/ → /l/ & /ɫ/ (before a consonant)
6.20.1 · 25 pairs
/ll/ → /ʎ/ & /l/ (palatalized in Spanish)
6.20.2 · 11 pairs
/ll/ → /l/ & /l/ (simplified in both)
6.21.1 · 20 pairs
/pl/ → /ʎ/ & /ʃ/
6.21.2 · 9 pairs
/kl/ → /ʎ/ & /ʃ/
6.22.1 · 10 pairs
/ʎ/ → /x/ & /ʎ/
6.22.2 · 5 pairs
/kl/ → /x/ & /ʎ/
6.23.1 · 604 pairs
Loanword /j/ → /j/ & /j/
6.24.1 · 642 pairs
/t/ → /t/ & /t/
6.24.2 · 282 pairs
/d/ → /d/ & /d/ (non-intervocalic)
6.24.3 · 496 pairs
Intervocalic /d/ → /ð/ & /d/
6.24.4 · 496 pairs
The *-dad / -dade* family (Latin *-TATE*): /d/ → /ð/ & /d/
6.25.1 · 306 pairs
/p/ → /p/ & /p/
6.25.2 · 235 pairs
b/v merger: β → β & v, b → b & b
6.25.3 · 154 pairs
/f/ → /f/ & /f/ and /f/ → /∅/ & /f/ (before a vowel)
6.26.1 · 487 pairs
/k/ → /k/ & /k/
6.26.2 · 197 pairs
Intervocalic /g/ → /ɣ/ & /g,/ non-intervocalic /g/ → /g/ & /g/
6.26.3 · 27 pairs
Arabic /q/ → /k/ & /k/
6.27.1 · 56 pairs
/h/ → /∅/ & /∅/
6.28.1 · 25 pairs
/kt/ → /tʃ/ & /(j)t/ (diphthong cases)
6.29.1 · 219 pairs
Stable /s/ → /s/ & /s/
6.29.2 · 141 pairs
Intervocalic /s/ → /s/ & /z/
6.30.1 · 145 pairs
Pre-consonantal /s/ → /s/ & /ʃ/
6.31.1 · 77 pairs
/ts/ → /θ/ & /s/
6.32.1 · 24 pairs
Latin /ss/ → /s/ & /s/
6.32.2 · 4 pairs
Arabic /zz/ → /θ/ & /z/
6.33.1 · 72 pairs
/dʒ/ → /x/ & /ʒ/
Every table here shows the full corpus behind a sound correspondence — the print book shows a curated handful. Forms are generated from the book’s Latin→Romance model; the CCA column is the reconstructed common ancestor.