Re: [tied] latin esse

On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 14:14:53 +0100, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
wrote:

>Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>> No, it's on /e/ in <éram>, <éra:s>, <érat> and <érant>, but in
>> trisyllabic <erá:mus> and <erá:tis> the long-vowelled penultimate
>> syllable attracts stress. Do check the rules again
>>
>The trisyllabic words became twosyllabic after the lost of final
>consonant, don't they?

Loss of consonants normally does not affect the syllable count. Loss
of vowels does.

>anyway, there is a bit trouble with this "m" final which sometimes is
>lost sometimes not.
>Latin:
>eram , eras, erat, eramus, eratis, erant
>Romanian:
>eram, erai, era, eram, eratsi, erau

Where e.g. Spanish has normalized the accent on the model of the
singular (éra, éras, éra, éramos, érais, éran), Romanian has done so
on the model of the plural. Latin éram, éra:s, érat, erá:mus,
erá:tis, érant should have given Romanian iéra, iérai, iéra, erám(u),
erátz(i), iéra. This was regularized (with the vowel of the singular,
the stress of the plural) as: ierá, ierái, ierá, ierám, ierátzI,
ierá. Modern Romanian has disambiguated the form (i)erá (1sg., 3sg.
or 3pl.) by substituting the endings of avea (1sg. am, 2sg. a(re),
2pl. au), giving the paradigm of the literary language eram, erai,
era, eram, eratzi, erau.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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