Re: Assimilation (was: Albanian pre and Romanian prada)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
> As regarding the timeframe of Latin ae>e Rosetti indicates that
> Varro talked about e for ae (in the countryside) indicating hedus
> against haedus.
>
> Varro => 116 BC-27? BC see at
> http://evansexperientialism.freewebspace.com/varronis_latin.htm
>
> So we can supposed that Latin ae > e became general (= finished) in
> sec I CE

Not if he's talking about a merger of Latin /ae/ and /e:/. That sound
change failed in general, and for the most part /ae/ merged with short
/e/.

Richard.