Re: [tied] Re: Dog

26-01-04 10:04, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> I don't think short /a/ in Latin loans was nasalised. As for
> rhotacism, words like Tosk fre/freri (Geg frê/frêni) < fre:num differ
> from <qen> in having no synchronic alternation between /n/ and /r/
> within Tosk.

Sorry, I didn' finish my thought. If early Tosk originally had <qen> vs.
expected *<qeri>, analogical levelling was possible because of the
retention of the final n in the base form.

Piotr