[tied] Re: Albanian pre and Romanian prada (was: Question on Albani

>Actually, we don't need a /p-/ to produce -ã- in the weak stem. The /r/
>itself conditions the retraction of pretonic *e, cf. rãs,inã < resi:na.
>This suggests that *pread- was replaced by <prad-> because of the
>derivational ambiguity of its unstressed alomorph <prãd->.

Piotr, doesn't matter the history of Romanian e > ã here => There is
no trace of e in Aromanian (and accented e never passed to ã or to
something else (but ea) in Aromanian) => I quoted Rosetti on this
subject...
So the word was for sure *prada in Common Romanian => and *praada in
Balkan Latin

Best Regards,
Marius