Re: [tied] Lost of intervocalic -d- in Albanian bi-syllabic words?

> > But the etymological affricate seems to have never been lost, even
> in
> > trisyllabic words cf. <madhështi>.
>
> I suspect that <madhështi> is ma-dhështi 2 syllable (Abdullah?)
> => as in Romanian: RomâneSti is Ro-mâ-neSti
>

Also your logic is not a 'clean one' here:

d>dh>zero took place later than dz>dh...so doesn't matter the
original source of dh here.
To talk about a dh sourced from an "etymological affricate" and
about a dh "sourced from a d" doesn't have any sense here, when we
talk about a later transformation that happens on -dh-: a dh is a dh
doesn't matter 'from where it arrives'....

Best Regards,
Marius