A Refactoring of Spanish & Portuguese · companion data
Companion / Part 6 / 6.4.2
Section 6.4.2

The ⟨gua⟩ / ⟨cua⟩ cluster: wa → wa & wɐ

11 cognate pairs · click a row for its historical trace

CCASpanishES IPAPortuguesePT IPAEnglish
/ˈfat.wa/fatua/ˈfat.wa/fátua/ˈfa.t/fatua
wa.ka.me/wakame/wa.ˈka.me/wakame/.ˈka.mɨ/wakame, edible seaweed
/wa.ˈga.ʃi/wagashi/wa.ˈɣa.ʃi/wagashi/.ˈga.ʃi/wagashi
/ˈtɾeg.wa/tregua/ˈtɾeɣ.wa/trégua/ˈtɾɛ.g/truce
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.