Reconstruction:Latin/acca

Etymology
The earliest Latin name of H was. The loss of /h/ in common speech before the end of the Republican period made this name indistinct from, driving its replacement by *acca much later.

The OED sees *acca as a phonological normalisation of *ahha, a reinforcement of ha (compare the later development of, ). Sheldon instead sees here a fusion of +. He notes that the practice of Latin grammarians was to separate the alphabet into vowels, "semivowels" (continuant consonants) and mutes. The list of mutes was B C D G H K P Q T, and in recitation of this sequence, ... ge ha ka pe..., the ha and ka could have accreted together. This would also explain the variant form *aca, found in Portuguese.

Noun

 * 1) The name of the letter H.

Descendants

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