Re: [tied] Question on Albanian sy

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 42262
Date: 2005-11-25

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:
>
> alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > b) Piotr, the single source of je/ja in Romanian is e
>
> In an unstressed syllable there's no diphongisation either in
Albanian
> or in Romanian, and as far as I know the Romanian stress is initial
> in this word. For albanian, cf. *dHeubeto- 'see' > *debët > *deët >
> de:t, not *dejet or the like.


It's true Piotr that currently the accent in fluier is on u and
your above rule "Only accented e > je" is for sure the correct one.

But please take a look on the Aromanian form: Ar. fluearã and
please remember also that e>ea took place too only on a stressed
syllable when in the next syllable we have an e or an ã

For the Aromanian form see Rosetti at:
http://f6.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/wPyGQxXKybeKZVhdPwuCvzC5jkamy0hIV94ou73Ee
1ysvppJutjVhr_rsbWhJQ52_6hnC-KRgGH-
hCEABeksRPZ1TVY9ehR4lk6byA/Rosetti/Rosetti_ILR_II_114_115.jpg


> Of course there _are_ other sources of /j/ in
> Romanian, e.g. palatalised /l/ or /n/.

It's true that by coincidence such reductions could generate an je
(I will check if there are or not cases like this in Romanian)
But both /l/ /n/ should be preserved in Aromanian (ex: Rom. frâu >
Ar. frân and lj > l' in Aromanian) that is not the case for fluier.

Best Regards,
marius