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duced revilia; 2 rubello, robello (also contaminated with rubare,, 
robare) from rebello or ribello; rubaldo presents the same case. 
(b) Before M: romanere (Guinizelli et al.), for rimanere; 
romito, for (e)remito; somigliare (mod. illiterate sumigliare) ; 
domandare; ombnto (mod. popular, and umbuto a peasant 
word) for imbuto; 3 domani, domattina, domonio (in the Vita 
S. Aless.), for demonio, dimonio; giomella (in the old lan¬ 
guage, but still living in the mountains, for giumella), from 
gemella; 4 lumaca, from limax (possibly lume also influenced 
this word) ; lomia, lumia, for limia. 5 6 
(c) Before P: dopo, doppo, doppoi, from depost. 0 
(d) Before V: rovello (“stizza rabbiosa”), from rebell-is 7 p 
piovano, <pieve+ano; daddovero, daddoverissimo, daddove- 
rone, da dovera (the last in Boiardo), from de vero (de vero, 
twice in Dante’s Convivio; now davvero, from da) ; rovescio, 
rovesciare, from reve(r)su-, etc.; rovistare (and ruvistare), 
from *revisitare; doventare; dovere, doveroso, etc. 
(e) Other cases: possibly pulicano, for pellicano, is an in¬ 
fluence of the preceding labial or a distortion of the French, 
form (it is found in the Tavola Ritonda). Giubetto, for 
gibetto (French ?), seems to owe its IT to the B 8 . 
30. Aphekesis. —Tania (16th century), for litania, by illu¬ 
sion of the definite article; 1 vangelo, vagnelo, guagnelista, etc., 
2. By a second shift and. confusion there arose the form orbiglia, 
also. For the process, cf. §24, note 4. 
3. The O of ombuto might have come from the article: lo imbuto* 
lo’mbuto, l’ombuto; see §35. 
4. “Quanta roba sta nel cavo delle due mani congiunte;” cf. French 
jumeaux and Spanish jumela. M.-L., Ital. Gram., §128, says that it is 
from French; why so? 
5. From Arab.-Pers. leimoun, -cf. English lemon and lime. Such 
forms as ultomo (Valdichiana) show the same development before M 
in a posttonic syllable. 
6. Cf. Rumanian dupa; see Canello, AG" III 334. 
7. See Tobler ZRPh X 578. 
8. Busica, at Arezzo, for vescica, shows the influence of a preceding 
labial; buscica is a Sard form; busecca is a Lombard form of the 
same, whence probably modern busecchia, busecchio, =“budello, sal- 
siccia.” Other cases of labialization at Lucca are given by Pieri, AG 
XII 114; siograre (*sciovrare< scevrare), soppellire, domorava, 
romase, dopende, ciometerio, Folippo. For 0 in some cases and U in 
in others, cf. §§55, seq. 
§30. Note 1. From the form le Zetanie, by dropping one le, as- 
rAlamagna> la Lamagna> la Magna. 
