Re: isle > ile?

Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> épée <- Old French espee
> <- Latin (ill)a spatha (with wrong cut)
Actually, the first e in epee is not from the article, but
is from the same principle that prefixes e to all initial s+stop in
Spanish today.  This sound-law (status > estat > etat, e.g)
is no longer live in French, which now has plenty of more
recent words with s+stop initial.

ObConlang: Brithenig has the living version of the rule,
but the prefix is y- /i/.  This is also the prefix in
Turkish:  Gr. [Kon]stantinopol- > Ar. [as-]Stamboul
 > T. Istanbul.


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