[tied] Re: Balkan Serpents (was: alb. gji (breast))

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com,
Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:07:31

+0100, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>

> wrote:
>
> [a lot of confused nonsense]
>
> It's really very simple:
>
> Lat. vitellu(m) > vetEllu >

vetiellu > vitzel(u)

> vitella(m) vetElla

vetiella vitzea

>
> Unstressed /e/ gave /i/ here,

probbaly at the stage *vetiellu >

> *vitiellu by assimilation.

Regular or sporadic?
-ella > -ea as in stea < stella.
The rules we had gave
-tElla > tiella > tiealla > tziealla

> -tzalla > -tzaa.

Richard.
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>
> >vetElla > vitiella
> >vedere > vedere
> >
> >Why once the /e/ from 'vetElla'

became /i/ and the /e/ from 'vedere'

> >became /e/ ?
>
> The /E/ became /ie/, and the /e./

became /e/. As in Spanish or

> Italian.
>
> >But you can try to get me closed

when you come to dog.In Latin where

> >from derives "catulus" and

"catula"? From "canis"?

>
> Of course not.
>
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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