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

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 00:24:15 -0000, "Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...>" <richard.wordingham@...>
wrote:

>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com,
>Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>> Unstressed /e/ gave /i/ here,
>probbaly at the stage *vetiellu >
>> *vitiellu by assimilation.
>Regular or sporadic?

Sporadic.

> -ella > -ea as in stea < stella.
>The rules we had gave
>-tElla > tiella > tiealla > tziealla
>> -tzalla > -tzaa.

The loss of -ll- was earlier. -tzieaã gives -tzea.

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