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55. The development of O O U U is much more complicated 
than that of E I, etc. At first appearance, these vowels seems 
to produce most erratically: O in some words, IT in others, and 
O or U indifferently in still others. The following, however, 
seem to he the laws of development: 
56. Viulgar Latin 0 (< 5 o u) produced (1) normally O in 
Florence and in modern Italian; (2) U regularly in the fol¬ 
lowing cases, (a) when the next syllable contained an accented 
I, (b) when it contained an unaccepted I, (c) when the second 
syllable began with a palatalized consonant, and (d) when the 
second syllable began with voiced S; (3) U at least in many 
other cases among the illiterate and the peasants; (4) 0 on U 
by contamination of various kinds (se© below). 
57. Latin U produced Italian U, but here, too, there are 
many perversions of various cause 1 . 
58. Examples of the Regular Development to G: bot- 
tega, cocolla, cocomero, cocuzza, colore, coltello, the preposition 
con, derivatives of th© prefix CUM- (comandare, compagno, 
comparire, comune, condurre, confuso, oonoscerei, consegna, 
contratto, convenire, cospetto, costume), conocchia 1 , contadino, 
derivatives of the prefix ECCU- (colui, costui, cotale, cotanto, 
etc.), dolore, formaggio, Giovanni, lo, lontano, momento, mo- 
nello, non, derivatives of the prefix OB- (obbedire, offesa, op- 
porre, osservare, ossesso, etc.), odore, onore, oscuro, polenda, 
derivatives of the prefix PRO- (profondo, promettere, prose- 
guire, etc.), sor (from seniore-, in such expressions as Sor Pas- 
quale), sorpendere, sorsaltare, spontaneo, derivatives of the 
prefix SUB- (sobbollire, sobborgo, sopportare, sospetto, so- 
stanza, sottendere, sotterrare (from sottoterrare), sottrarre, 
sowertire, etc.), tormento, toscano, etc. 
59. The following are examples of the same, but the de¬ 
velopment might have been aided by allied or analogous forms, 
as indicated in the parentheses, and some are literary words: 
boccone, etc. (bocca), cortese (corte), crollare (crollo, etc.), 
557. Note 1. See Introduction, §8. 
§58. Note l. Prom *colucula, colus; canocchia is used by Sacchettl, 
Lor. Med., and is the popular form to-day. See 567. 
