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05. Double Forms. —(a) The perversions in the following 
seem to have existed in Vulgar Latin: lordura, from lordo, 
from *luridu-, Classic lu, cf. French lourd; nodrire (now lit¬ 
erary and poetic, formerly very common), from *nutrire, cf. 
French nourrir, Classic nu-; ontuoso, obsolete for untuoso, 
from *unctuosu-, Classic unc-, cf. French oindre; orina and 
urina, from *urina and Classic u-, cf. Old French orina and 
Spanish orina; ortica modern, and urtica, obsolete, from *ur- 
tica and Classic ur-, cf. French ortie 1 ; poleggio and puleggio, 
from *puleju- and Classic pu-; polmonare and pulmonare, 
from *pul- and Classic pul-, cf French poumon; pontare (Sac- 
chetti et al.) and puntare, from *punctare, Classic punc-, cf. 
French point; scodella, modern, and scudella (living among 
the peasants and in the mountains), from *scutella, Classic 
scu-. (b) Some other preversions are dialectic; osanza, omore 
are found in Old Sienese; prodenza, omano, otilita in Alber- 
tano; giomente (for giumento) in Guittone; sprodente in the 
Valdichiana. (c) Other cases are dialectic or of doubtful 
cause: bolimia and bulimia (both literary), costodia (Lasca), 
lossuria (obsolete), moricciolo (Fior. di S’. Franc.), oncino 
(popular for uncino), osura (obsolete), polzella (for pulcella), 
rogumare (for ruminare), romor© (still used), scoiattolo, stro- 
mento (and stormento, sturmento) 2 . 
66. Vowel Assimilation. —Tedesco, from Gothic thiudi- 
sko (todesco in Filelfo) ; micina (less comomnly micino,— 
whence, working backwards, also micio), if from Latin *mu- 
sio; silimato, for solimato, from sublimatu-; pricissione, an il- 
lit. and peasant word for processione 1 ; filiggine, from fuli- 
gine- 2 ; squittinio, from sc(r)utiniu-; stipidire, for stupidire; 
uguanno (a peasant word), from hocqu(e)-annu-, “quest’ 
anno” 3 ; avannotto, “tutti i pesci di fiume nati di fresco,” is 
565. Note 1. In any case the Florentine form would he urtica. 
2. See Wiese, Altitalienisches Elementarhuch, §59, 3. 
§66. Note 1. Unless this is a case of confusion of prefix, pre- for pro-, 
in which case the development was precessione> pricessione> pricis¬ 
sione. Pricissionando, mod. Florentine, in Prop. V (part 1), p. 151-2. 
2. Fuliggine is also in use. 
3. M.-L., Ital. Gram. (Bartoli and Braun’s translation), §66: “1 ’u- d 
come 1’ombra proiettata dal gu della sillaba seguente.” There is also 
an aphetic form guanno, and a form unguanno with an epenthetic n, 
and uguannoto. Cf. the similar development of eguale to uguale. 
