Re: Goats

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "altamix" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> --- 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".

No he doesn't. Try running Latin _haedus_ and *e:dus through 'the
rules' and see what you get.

> 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

Quality matters here.

> (no diphtongation here, but iotacisation of /e/)

I don't believe there is any itacisation here. Are you saying a
prothetic semivowel was added?

Richard.


Richard.