Category:Italian terms with unexpected vowel outcomes
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Most of these fall into one of two categories:
- Proparoxytones (words with the structure [-ˈσσσ]), where some kind of modification occurred in the syllable following the stressed one, perhaps reflecting an earlier trend of vowel reduction in that position.
- -A following /l/, perhaps in early Tuscan [ɫ], may have exerted a 'velarizing' influence on preceding vowels in that position.
- Adverbs where an original /-e/ has been replaced by /-i/, perhaps by analogy with those with etymological /-i/, such as ieri, fuori < Latin herī, forīs.
Pages in category "Italian terms with unexpected vowel outcomes"
The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.