- French: /js/ (e.g.
laisser from
laxare) Italian: /ss/ (e.g. ****e from axem) and, in some cases, /ʃʃ/ (e.g.
lasciare from
laxare) Portuguese: /jʃ/ (e.g. eixo...
- same
underlying sound produces different results in
different words, e.g.
laxāre >
lasciare and l****are, captiāre >
cacciare and cazzare, (ex)dēroteolāre...
- Inc. 1997
Kulikowski 2007, p. 130. Bradley,
Dennis R. (1993). ""In
Altum Laxare Vela Compulsus": The 'Getica' of Jordanes". Hermes. 121 (2): 211–236. JSTOR 4476955...
- lavatory, lave, lavender, lavish,
lotion lax- not tense,
slack Latin laxus,
laxare delay, disrelish, laches, lax, laxation, laxative, laxity, leasable, lease...
- such as CT, X, GR:
FACTVM "done" >
Western Vulgar Latin */fajtʲu/ > fait
LAXĀRE "to release" >
Western Vulgar Latin */lajsʲare/ > OF
laissier > laisser...
- lavatory, lave, lavender, lavish,
lotion lax- not tense,
slack Latin laxus,
laxare delay, disrelish, laches, lax, laxation, laxative, laxity, leasable, lease...
- chalāre ('Dionysius is
allowed to ****
whenever he
wants to'). The
Latin word
laxāre appears to be used in the same
sense in
Priapeia 31: haec meī tē ventris...
-
refulget iam novum, ut
tollat omne noxium. 3 E
sursum Agnus mittitur laxare gratis debitum; omnes pro
indulgentia vocem
demus **** lacrimis, 4...
- The
result of this
process in Old
French was the
diphthong [ie]:
Latin laxāre /lakˈsaːre/ > Old
French laissier [lajˈsier] (modern
French laisser "let")...
- [ˈkwapsə] < COXAM. A
common alternative outcome of /ks/ is /s/, as in [ləˈsa] <
LAXARE.
Original /ps/ also
developed occasionally to /s/ in Romanian. Some loans...
