The Châteaubleau tile as a link between Latin and French and between Gaulish and Brittonic
1998; Les Belles Lettres; Volume: 34; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3406/ecelt.1998.2133
ISSN2669-6568
Autores ResumoThis is a study of the linguistic features in the new Gaulish text from Château¬ bleau. This text does not partake, with Southern Gaulish, in some innovations common with Brittonic, as the transformation of -nm-into -nw-, but other features join it to Brittonic, such as the loss of final -n-. Amongst the (perhaps late) innovations, this form of Gaulish exhibits a remarkable diphtongation of long vowels : only in Auslaut for long -u-(so, gniiou), and perhaps long -Ï-, but without any restriction for the new long vowels -e-and -δ-coming from -ei-( ? iegumi with *ei > ë > ie) and -ou-(in muana). This is remarkably parallel to what happened in northern French.
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