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Currently, I'm mostly contributing to entries on Latin.

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Syllabification and other pronunciation issues:

  • Mispronounced transcriptions: Adramyttium

Greek diphthongs in hiatus:

Before consonants:

Voicing of /s/ to [z] in ancient or Ecclesiastical Latin

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S+sonorant in Latin:

  • Word-initially, mostly /sm/, which is voiced [zm] in Greek, allegedly since ancient times:
    • smaltum, smaragdus, smaris, smecticus, smegma, Smenus, Smerdis, Smila, smilax, Smyrna/Zmyrna, smyrus. There are spellings with "zm" as "Zymrna", which might be evidence for [zm]. Gaffiot mentions zm spellings for smaragdus, Smyrna, smyrnion/zmyrnium, smyrus.
    • word-initial /sn/ we only have in New-Latin Snelandia, which I'd guess has hardly ever been pronounced aloud
    • word-initial /sl/ we have in slavicus, Slovacia, and a couple related forms. Italian has [zl] in words spelled with "sl", most of which are from s-prefixed words I think (e.g. slabbrare, slacciare). The form "Sclavus" has "c" which it seems might go back to Greek forms. Gaffiot has only Slemnium for sl- words.
    • word-inital /sr/ does not exist in Wiktionary, nor in Gaffiot or L&S.
  • Word-medially, mostly /sm/:
    • /sm/ in many Greek -ma and -mus/-mos words; also in Asmura, Asmīraea, alius-modi, nos-met... trans-m...
    • /sn/ in Asnaus/Asnai; ...s-nam (cuius-, ecquis-, qualis-, quis-); trans-n... (-nato, -navigo, -no, -nominatio, -nomino, -numero)
    • /sl/ in ...s-libet, trans-l..., legis-latio, proslambanomenos
    • /sr/ in Cisrhenanus, Transrhenanus, Israel, disrumpo, disraro

Minor notes

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  • Lamse Rhamses vs. decemscalmus, etiamsi, circum- words.
  • odd -culum/-cula words
  • PIE *lewh₃- seems to be two roots, not one (loosen and wash)
  • find information about the inflected form Jehovae
  • Latin ge is still off in kerguelensis
  • silvestris suffix
  • -um genitives: unguentum
  • rādula, tegula, regula: of a kind? "The Latin ‘tool’ Suffixes and the Formation of rēgula, tēgula, and trāgula" (Sihler)

Misc pages

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Quotes for quisquam

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Valerius Maximus|Facta et Dicta Memorabilia|4|3|14|11|quote=ceterum cum et magni pretii et varii generis a legatis eius tam virorum quam feminarum apta usui munera circa domos ferrentur, nulla cuiquam dono ianua patuit Some editors correct this to "cuiusquam".

Titus Livius, Periochae Librorum A. U. C. 123.1 Sex. Pompeius, Magni filius, collectis ex Epiro proscriptis ac fugitivis cum exercitu diu sine ulla loci cuiusquam possessione praedatus in mari