Re: [tied] Albanian pre and Romanian prada

Richard Wordingham wrote:

> 1. praeda > pre:da (Rural Latin)
>
> Middle English _preie_ from Old French suggests a Proto-Romance high
> vowel /e:/ rather than a low vowel /E:/.

It doesn't matter for the discussion of <pradã>, since both vowels yield
Proto-Balkan Romance *e after a rhotic. On the Albanian side, it's of
course PBR *preda --> PAlb. *preda > *preë > pre:

Piotr