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Sound Correspondences II

Following on from Sound Correspondences I, here are some more common correspondences within Spanish, French and Italian, along with the Latin from whence it all sprung. The Latin is again generally given in the ablative form for nouns and adjectives (used after prepositions, it's the form most commonly taken over from Latin).

English(Latin)SpanishFrenchItalian
pl-ll-pl-pi-
fullplenollenopleinpieno
rainpluvialluviapluiepioggia
cl-ll-cl-chi-
callclamorllamarclamer*chiamare
keyclavellaveclefchiave

* clamer=to shout, like exclaim