Etymon: Videre.
The verbal morphology for “Videre” goes as follows:
Videre > [Beder] > (Loss of /d/ which leaves double /e/ /e/) > Veer [Béer] > Ver (modern) (bér)
Initially second /e/ stressed e.g. /eé/ and later contraction > /é/
Modern Spanish verb: SER Latin etymon: ESSE
Word found in text: Ffué
Latin etymon “ESSE” (preterite tense):
The Latin etymon ESSE, meaning “to be”, is considered unique, as it has an unusual infinitive form in that that does not fall into any of the four classic Latin verb cases “e”: ESSE > SSE short vowel undergoes lenition. And assimilation of the two voiceless alveolar fricative consonants into one: SSE > SE.
Dixo
Etymon: Dixit
Dixit > Dixo > dijo
/Di-ksit/ > Di-ksi syncope of word final /t/
Di-ksi > Di-kso shows evolution of word final /i/ high front to /o/ high mid back
Which in old Spanish is [dixo]
/Di-kso/ > /Di-xo/ shows the palatalization of /-ks/ to /x/ through compromised articulation.
Inviare > Enbiar > enviar.
In text: Enbiél
Etymon: Inviare.
In-wi-are > En-wi-are highlights the evolution of the unstressed vowel /i/ high front to /e/ high mid front
En-wi-are > En-Bi-are the evolution of /v/ to /b/ which is a common grapheme found in Spanish and no distinction between the sound of each letter.
En-bi-are > En-bi-ar the loss of word final /e/ high mid front [enbiar] grapheme change from /b/ to /v/ sound is the same from old to modern spanish.
Word found in text: Mandado.
Conjugation of Latin etymon “Mandare”
The word final high-mid front vowel “e” is lost from the Latin etymon Mandare, forming the modern Spanish verb Mandar.
Addition of double “d” creates word final > Mandadu.
The unstressed—and therefore short— high back rounded vowel “u” evolves into the mid back rounded vowel “o”
In text: Fabla.
Etymon: Fabulatur.
Modern Spanish equivalent: Habla.
Fabulatur > Fabla > Habla
From Old Spanish to Modern Spanish: Word intial voiceless labiodental fricative [f] becoming voiceless glottal fricative [h]. Lenition of the unstressed high back [u] occurs from Latin to Old Spanish. Shortening of word occurs through the loss of /tur/.