Goats (was: correction [Re: Weeping])

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 18-01-04 21:14, alex wrote:
>
> > For "ied" there is not supposed anymore that there is a sg.

remade too

> > analogical because of Alb. word, but this should derive direct

from

> > "haedus".
> > I love the linguistic,it allows a lot:-)
>
> If Alb. edh had been borrowed from Balkan Latin (*Edum < (h)

aedum), the

> initial vowel would have developed into *ie > je, and the

intervocalic

> -d- would have been lost; cf. mEdicu- --> mjek, vadum --> va:.

It's

> therefore more likely that <edh> is a regular reflex of inherited
> *h2aig^-. Rom. ied (pl. iezi) is not compatible with such an

etymology,

> but it's perfectly compatible with Lat. (h)aedum/(h)aedi:
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/27434
>
> Linguistics _constrains_ speculation rather than "allow a lot".

If Romanian had borrowed the precursor of Albanian <edh> from the
source of its Albanian-like substrate, what would the borrowed word
look like now?

Richard.