Schlatter—The Development of the Vowel. 1101 
aspettare (Cexpectare); asportare, asportabile, etc. 
(<exportare) ; asperienza; aspandere; ascortare (now scor- 
tare); accelente, etc.; asaldire, assaudire, assauldire, etc. 
(<exaudire); asolarsi (<exhalare, —“stare a prendere il 
fresco” 2 ); assillo (in the Intelligenza, <exiiiu-); astutare 
(—“attutire,” <*ex-tutare, <tundere) ; adificare (for edifi- 
care); asemplo, asempro, assempio, etc. (<exemplu-, cf. 
Spanish enjiemplo) ; aspengere; aleggere, aletto; 3 aguagliare, 
aguale (—“ora, adcsso” 4 ) ; alluminare (mod. illit., for 
ill-) ; allustrare (for ill-) ; annestare;”' annaffiare (<in-afflare) ; 
annaspare (<in+OHGrerm. haspa) ; annoiare (<*in-odiarc) i 6 ; 
annemico; annacquare (<in-aquare) ; annitrire (and anitrire, 
Pulci; ‘Tanitrir de’cavalli;” (*hinnitrire f ammiserire (a 
conscious substitution for the more usual immiserire). 
(b) Of DE-: demanio, diminio, diminare, etc. (for do* 
minio, etc.). 
(c) Of PRO-: proffidia, proflldioso, etc. (illit. mod., for 
perfidia, etc. ); prowidenza (in the sense of previdenza); 
prosumere, etc. (for pre-) ; propostato, etc. (for prepositura, 
etc.) ; propotente, etc. (for pre-) ; pronome (for pre-) ; pro- 
mutare, etc. (for per-), promissione (for per-) ; prutendere 
(peasant for of pro-, for pre-) 7 . 
(d) Of RE-: ritondo (for rotondo). 
(e) OF SITB-: sodducere (and subdurre, for sedurre); 
sop(p)ellire (for seppellire) 8 ; suggello (for sigillo) 9 ; sobbis- 
sare (for abissare, from abisso). 
(f) Other cases: secorso (i3th century, for soccorso) shows 
2. See Canello, AG III 365. 
3. See M.-L., Ital. Gram., §138. In view of the extensive influence of 
the resultant of Latin AD in composition on the Italian lexikon, 
M.-L.’s explanation seems unnecessary, -cf. §41, note 2. 
4. This might be a harmonizing of the vowels. 
5. From *ini (n)s(i)tare; insitio, et sim., are Classic Latin. In this 
case, the change of prefix brought with it the necessity for doubling 
the n; likewise in annaffiare, annaspare, annoiare, annemico, annac¬ 
quare. 
6. Modern nitrire is aphetic. Cf. §30, note 11. 
7. If Diez’ etymology is correct, prosciutto also belongs here: *perex- 
suctus (from sucus), persutto, presciutto, prosciutto, and prosutto (the 
last in Bern bo). 
8. Pucci’s Centiloquio has soppellito and sepultura in the same line. 
9. See M.-L., Ital. Gram., §124; Parodi, Studi ital. filol. class., I 428. 
