[tied] Re: Derivation Rules from Old Slavic to Romanian

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 26761
Date: 2003-11-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:
> Hello Alex,
>
> For sure: Not the Colonists loan the "Albanians" or
the "Dacians"
> words, but the local populations learned Latin.
> Why? Because the Colonists (from all around the world) will
never
> transform in the same manner:
> lucta -> lupt~a ;

-ct- > -pt- does seem unusual, but -pt- > -ct- occurs in the
development of Proto-Celtic from PIE. The change -xt- > -ft- is not
unknown, though - it occurred in the development of Modern English
from Middle English.

> -> lufte:

-pt- > -ft- occurs in the development of Modern Greek from the Koine.

> dece -> zece
> die -> dzi -> zi

Cf. French Canadian - colonists indeed!

> clave -> cheie etc...

cl- > chi- occurs in Italian, cl- > ll- in Spanish and cl- > ch- in
Portuguese.

Richard.