Re: [tied] A truncated snake

m_iacomi@... wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
>> The old consonant/i-stems (Latin class III) often retain the
>> nominative form in Romanian. E.g. frate < frater (not fratrem which
>> would have given *fratre), [...]
>
> Actually, _if_ the phrase "Torna, torna, fratre!" very often quoted
> by scholars belongs to (Proto-)Romanian, one could drop the "*"; but
> at least for PBR, the word "fratre" seems undoubtfully atested

For this hypothesis of existance in PBR of the word "fratre" should be
mentioned the Vegliot form for " brother "= frutro. Of course this
should be kept in mind under the assumption that in Venetian was not an
word like "fratr-" where from the Vegliot word could derive from

Alex