Re: [tied] Goats (was: correction [Re: Weeping])

Richard Wordingham wrote:

>> 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.

exactly how it looks today: iez
this "iez" is one and the same word as Alb. "edh". The iotacisation of
"e" is common in that position as in Latin "haedera" > iedera.

Alex