Re: Fw: [tied] Latin versus *Proto-Romance

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:21:54 +0100, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
wrote:

>Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
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>> From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
>> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 4:00 PM
>> Subject: Re: Fw: [tied] Latin versus *Proto-Romance
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>>> do you mean herewith the slavic word "krali" ?
>>
>> Yes
>>
>> Piotr
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>
>hmmm.. I wonder when stopped in Romanian the "li" > "i"

The Slavic form was not krali, but kralI (nom/acc), with a soft yer
<I>, which was dropped very early on, leaving only palatalization of
the consonant (kralj, kral'). This should have been borrowed as
Romanian *kral^, which gives Daco-Romanian crai.


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