Re: Vamos a hablar claro

Harlan Messinger wrote:
Dušan Vukotić wrote:

Quite casually, Spanish returned Latin fumus to its oldest form
(hum-), though with the silent /h/.

So now you agree that Spanish "humo" came from "fumus", which is what I
said in the first place. Then all of the rest of this "dim" business had
nothing to do with that.

The 'oldest' form was *dh*umo-, anyway, so no 'returning' there.
IE /dh/ > lat. /f/ > old sp. /h/ > sp. /zero/. Not for 'humo' but for 'humo' and countless other words, 'hacer' being another example (cognate with 'do', iinm).
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