From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 18801
Date: 2003-02-13
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Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] -ella ( it was Balkan Serpents (was: alb. gji (breast)
> There is no reason to speculate about potential conservation of Latin -ll- in Romanian since the phonetical evolution is fully sustained by Aromanian and archaic Daco-Romanian form (-eawã) in enough many words.
Thanks, Marius, I didn't realise that. So the vocalisation must have taken place by, say, the eighth century. Of course this does away with any doubts concerning Slavic loans.
Piotr