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Gostino, for Agosto, etc.; sbergo, -a, for usbergo (the regular 
dropping of prosthetic I- before s -impura would have helped 
this apheresis). More arbitrary apheresis occurs in proper 
names, as usual 2 , —Renzo, for Lorenzo, Cencio for Vincenzo or 
Lorenzo (from forms in -ncio). 
82. AU>AL.—This seems to represent a clerical pronun¬ 
ciation of AU, a phenomenon lasting , some time 1 : algelli, 
(es)aldire (G. Cavalcanti, S. Girolamo, Lorenzo de’Miedici, 
et al.), aldire, alditore, aldace (Cellini), galdente, galdere, 
etc., laldare, fraldare, et sim., altore, altorita 2 . furthermore, 
by confusion, w r e have aultentico, aultorita, lauldare, 
gauldere, auldace. 
83. Miscellaneous. —Ciausire, ciausimento, come directly 
from Provencal, from German kausjan 1 . In agumentare, for 
aumentare, is present the effort to destroy the hiatus in au- (cf. 
ra gun a re, for raunare, from re-a(d)-unare),- augumentare is 
a mixture of both forms, like raugunare. Aurispiceo, auru- 
spicio, etc., are confusion of aruspice and auspice. Aunito, 
“svergognato,” is a Provengal form. Asbergo, for usbergo (in 
the Intelligenza), is apparently prosthesis of A from the fem¬ 
inine article 2 . Cavicoli, a plural substantive, architectural 
term, from Classic Latin cauliculus, diminutive of caulis, 
“stalk,” perhaps arose through analogy with cavicchio. 
Chiusura, etc., came from the forms accented chiudo, 3 etc. 
Mussoni, for monsoni, is apparently a modern borrowing 4 . 
84. —Dialects. —There is not sufficient material for obtain¬ 
ing satisfactory results concerning the development of Au. 
Classic Latin ATI-tJ, having given A-tJ already in Vulgar Latin, 
Tuscan,— and Italy in general,— shows A. In other cases, 
2. See §30 end. and §45. 
§82. Note 1. See Caix, Origini, §71; M.-L., Ital. Gram, §§100 and 125. 
2. For these and similar forms, see Caix, Origini, §68. 
§83. Note 1. See Zaccaria, p. 87. 
2. There was a feminine form, —cf. §81. Cf. also M.-L., Ital. Gram., 
§138. 
3. Although this Is the regular development of AU in forms not ac¬ 
cented on the first syllable, cludere was a Vulgar Latin form,—see 
Grandgent, Introd. to V. L., §211 (2). 
4. The French form is mousson, according to D.-H.: “pour mon- 
80n . . . du port, mongao . . . arab, mausim”. 
