[tied] Re: Against the theory of 'Albanian Loans in Romanian'

> In the list of the first Slavic loanwords in Romanian (those
> shared with similar phonetism by Daco-Romanian and Aromanian)
> there is only one with final /-c^/, "kolac^I" which got early
> regularised by alternance analogy both in DR and AR dialects,
> reconstructing a final /-k/ for the singular: "colac" (DR),
> "culac" (AR), same phenomenon which occured to substratal "copac"
> for an older "copaci(u)" (but not to monosyllabic "baci(u)").
> On another hand, there is to wonder why the ancient form of
> modern "atunci" < Lat. "ad tuncce" or "aici (aice)" < "ad hicce"
> did not underwent this transformation if it really happened.

Which beautifully demonstrates my claim that palatal velars are de-
palatalised only if they are part of a paradigm in which they
alternate between palatal and non-palatal.

Torsten