Re: [tied] Re: Late Proto Albanian *3 /dz/ = Early Proto Romanian

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 03-02-04 20:10, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
>> I linked Albanian case with ep-Romanians ONLY to signaled that
>> Albanians had "some problems" too, with the stability of Lat. /di/ in
>> the examples below...
>>
>> P.S. AT LEAST you could supposed that I know that Lat. directus give
>> Rom. drept so it had nothing to do with /3i/...
>
> Well, _none_ of your examples have anything to do with the Romanian
> change of Balkan Latin d > 3 /_i, since they involve (Classical) Latin
> short /i/ which either yielded Proto-Balkan Romance *e or was
> syncopated (as in *drEktu- and *verde-). Nor do they illustrate
> proto-Albanian "problems" with /di/. To tell the truth they are
> totally inappropriate. I agree with Miguel that the only "problem"
> here is with your incomplete understanding of the early Romance
> developments.
>
> Piotr

I am sorry to contradict you Piotr, but there is no *drEktu in Proto-Balkan
Romance. At least not in the one people assume gave Romanian. Why I say
that?
Because in Old Romanian there is stil used the forms "d�rept" and
"d�reptate". The syncope of "�" is recent, very recent, 200 years maybe.

Alex