Re: Latin Pronunciation

[Jacques Guy <jguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis wrote:
> 
> Jorge Stolfi wrote:

> > But, did vowel length play a significant role? I suspect that
> > constrasting pairs were rather rare, so the loss of that particular
> > bit would not have made much difference.
> 
>         The only case I can think of is in the second
> declension - "femina" = "(the) woman",
> "femina:" = "by (the) woman".

Here is another:

anus (long a) and anus (short a)

The latter means "old woman", the former... you know.

And then, if you throw in consonants, you have
annus "year" (short a).