From: alex_lycos
Message: 18640
Date: 2003-02-09
> In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:The aromanian form is "fumeal'ã" (See Capidan, Dialectul Aroman. Studiu
>> "I had forgotten about Ita. serpe,
>> which can perhaps be explained by loss of -n in Eastern Romance"
>>
>> femina , lost of "n" - > femia > femeia
>>
>> how is that?
>
> Before answering to that, one should know that the phonetic part
> which speaks against this derivation was already explained to Alex
> in detail. Besides that, the Aromanian word /f&meal'e/ is by all
> means decisive in arguing one should look for an "l", not an "n"
>
> Marius Iacomi
>