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

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 18518
Date: 2003-02-07

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> Prety interesticn why "crai" from "krali" but "lipan" from "lipan (serbian word):-))

In *kraljI and *ljubiti we have Slavic *lj, i.e. a very strongly palatalised lateral, more palatal (and acoustically more [j]-like) than an *l affected by positional palatalisation before a front vowel. This is what makes the difference.

Piotr