[Lexicog] feugo etymology

[Mike Maxwell]

Chaz and Helga Mortensen wrote:
> You have to take stress placement into account here as well. Fuego has
> stress on the first syllable and the /o/ (I can never remember if it's
> the Latin
> /o/ or /o:/) becomes -ue-. (If the /o/ does not change in this
> situation it comes from the other Latin /o/.)
> In fogon and fogata, the /o/ is not stressed and maintains its quality.

Right, I understand that /o/ > /o/ or /ue/ is dependent on stress.  My
question is why the Latin /f/ didn't > /h/ in 'fogon' and 'fogota', like
it did in ferro > hierro etc.
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	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu

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