| Summary: | In this article, the historical and geographical variants of enjundia and esponja in Ibero-Romance are studied to determine the etymons of each of those variants in this Romance area. Through the phonetic analysis of the potential etymons (axungiam and *axungulam for enjundia and its variants; spongiam and *spongulam for esponja and its variants), it will be concluded that those containing the sequence -ngiV-are the source for the variants exhibiting [ɲ], [nts], [ndz] (> [nθ]), [ɲ(t)ʃ], [ɲ(d)ʒ] (> [Ṽʒ], [ŋx]) and [nd], while those containing the sequence -ngul- are the source for the variants exhibiting [ɲʎ] and [ʎ].
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