Re: [tied] di:rigere

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

> 04-02-04 21:57, altamix wrote:
>
> > just for helping you out, there is no di:rigere > dërgoj.
> > Here you have incidentaly the "dë" in that position due

metathesis.

> > The latin "di:rigo" > "dregoj > dërgoj.
> > For this situation you have as testimony the Romanian

word "drege" which is

> > the same as Alb. "dërgoj" both supposed to have as etymon

Latin "di:rigere".

>
> Actually, I suspect the VLat. reflex of di:rigere (merged with
> de:rigere) > *dereg- may have oscillated between *drég-/*derg-'
> depending on the stress pattern (different reductions rather than

actual

> metathesis). *derg- --> *d&rg-ónj works better for Albanian,

since
it

> accounts for the preservation of VLat. -g- (one would expect it to

be

> lost between vowels). I don't know, however, if other Romance
> developments support my reconstruction, and if not, what they

suggest

> instead.
>
> Piotr

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For a non-Romance instance, there's English 'dirge' "funeral
hymn" < the first word of the ancient "Dirige, Domine".
See http://www.bartleby.com/61/59/D0245900.html

Dan Milton