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There are some examples for d/l alteration on indo-european ground. we can find it in greek 'to dakru/dakruma' changed into latin 'lacrima' and in latin variation 'odor' and 'olere' originating from the same IE root. although I couldn't find any example concerning such a change in archaic greek.
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Qui inter hos enutriuntur, non magis sapere possunt, quam qui in culina bene olere.
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_Qui inter hæc nutriuntur, non magis sapere possunt, quam bene olere, qui in culiná habitant.
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus
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Odor eius graveolcns eft, uci folia pini olere folent.
Caroli a Linné ... Amoenitates academicae; seu, Dissertationes variae ... 1788
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Noueran t enim omncs vulgare illud olus, meminerantque matrc poctx illius quotidie jn vrbem vrnientcm. ve.odi - co eo olere, filium in fumma paupertate theatro
De Latinis et Graecis nominibus arborum, fruticum, herbarum, piscium ... Estienne Charles , Charles Estienne , Robert Estienne , Charles Estienne, ca 1504-ca 1564 1554
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a later race of stylists, who have gone as far as Samoa and beyond in the quest of exotic perfumery, Borrow would have said simply, in the words of old Montaigne, "To smell, though well, is to stink," -- "Malo, quam bene olere, nil olere."
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842
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