From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2024-04-07, Ruud Harmsen  wrote:   
      
   [Portuguese "és"]   
   >>I find it complicated that it would be anything other than the normal   
   >>evolution of latin 'es', but I haven't read on the subject.   
   >   
   > How would ‘es’ keep its s,   
      
   The same way other second person forms keep their -s:   
   Final -s is conserved from Latin to Portuguese.   
      
   > when ‘est’ lost the t AND the s?   
      
   Not a regular sound change.  Given it's extremely high frequency,   
   an irregular reduction isn't that surprising.  And again, the 2./3.   
   person clash after regular loss of -t had to be resolved in some   
   way.   
      
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