A Refactoring of Spanish & Portuguese · companion data
Companion / Part 6 / 6.20.2
Section 6.20.2

/ll/ → /l/ & /l/ (simplified in both)

11 cognate pairs · click a row for its historical trace

CCASpanishES IPAPortuguesePT IPAEnglish
/ˈtʃil.li/chile/ˈtʃi.le/chile/ˈtʃi.lɨ/chili pepper
/mes.ˈkal.li/mezcal/mes.ˈkal/mezcal/mɨʃ.ˈkal/mezcal
/bal.le.ˈri.na/bailarina/baj.la.ˈɾi.na/bailarina/bɐjlɐ.ˈɾi.nɐ/dancer
/ah.wa.ka.ˈmol.li/guacamole/gwa.ka.ˈmo.le/guacamole/gwɐ.kɐ.ˈmɔ.lɨ/guacamole
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.