Re: [tied] Goats

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

> 19-01-04 04:48, Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
> Assuming that the precursor was *e:dz in Roman times (from still

earlier

> *aidz'(a)- < *h2aig^(o)-), I'd expect Modern Romanian *ez.
>
> Piotr

you mean of course Modern Rom. "iez". There is no "e" at the begin of
the words in Rom. in the ancient words if I don't mistake, but "ie-"
*ez > iez (no diphtongation here, but iotacisation of /e/)

Alex