Re: [tied] Re: 3

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> OK, assuming for the sake of the argument that your self-observation
> is correct and that really have a monophthong there, it's still clear
> that the historical source of the monophthong is the smoothing of the
> diphthong /ei/, which represents the regular development of Latin
> <tre:s> in East Romance. Therefore, the whole diphthong-or-monophthong
> controversy is irrelevant to the question of the origin of the numeral
> '3' in Romanian.
>
> Piotr

Vegliot has "tra" for three.

regards.

Alex