Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>d(i)récta > dreaptã but d(i)réctu > drept.
Actually direaptã /di-'reap-t&/ and dirept. And
only afterwards dreaptã and drept (fem. & masc.
+ neutr. singular).
Also the substantivization: direptate (justice)
is the older form of today's dreptate.
>8) In Northern Romanian, before -e (not -a), /ea/ and /iea/ > /e/,
> /ie/: lege > leadZe (= MRom. leadze) > ledZe; *measã pl. mese;
>*featã pl. fete; *pieatrã, pl. pietre, *piearde > pierde)
That's the rule I was talking about! In the Northern
half (so to speak) of the Romanian language area (I mean
the so-called "DacoRumanian" dialect"), the words
mentioned above have such e's that are rather
like English /ae/: /laeZe/[1], plural /maes&/, /faete/,
/kaetre/, /paerde/.
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[1] /ledZe/ is standard and South-Eastern Romanian.
Northern and Western Romanian subdialects don't have
/dZ/, that is "ge/gi", but only /Z/, that's written "j".
So, in these subdialects, "ger, genunchi" (frost, knee)
are "jer, jenunchi".
>9) /iea/ > /ia/ (Erba > ierba > iearba > iarbã, pEtra > pietra >
>pieatra > piatrã). Likewise tErra > tiera > tieara > t,arã;
>sEpte > siepte > sieapte > s,apte)
In the Northern "half", piatra is /kyatra/. And /$epte/
continues to coexist with /$apte/ (for "seven"), "septe"
also being standard Romanian (not only regional or archaic).
>frenu > frîn.
frânã (fem.) = "brake"; frâu, frâie (neutr.) = "rein,
reins".
>Latin viridia -> PBR vérdia > [5] veárdia > veárzã >
[10] várzã.
(Thank you very much for the entire vowels list.)
>Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
George