From: alexmoeller@...
Message: 15563
Date: 2002-09-18
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From: "g" <gs001ns@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:13 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: *gwistis
>Syncopation in Romanian would have proceeded degetu > *degtu
/dedZtu/
>> *deçtu > de$tu > de$t; only the vowel, not the whole
syllable, is
>syncopated.
There's actually no need for this derivation, since, as I
already mentioned,
deget has always had the /Z/ variant dejet (still today, at
least one
half of the Romanian population utter the word this way). /Z/
and
/S/ are almost twins. The syncopation of the last vowel is
something
natural, as in "am vãzut" (I have seen + I saw) > "am vãz't"
/v&zt/.
The frequency of "dejet" is higher than that of "de$t".)
[Moeller] /Z/ and (S) almost twins? Zalba= Salba, Zigodie=
Sigodie, aSezare=aZesare, aStepta=aZtepta?be serious please..
noone, even if drunk too much will not confunde them:-)