[tied] Re: PIE *kwokt

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" wrote:

> Spelling: <viTea>, stress on the last vowel (in the diphtong).
> In your notation, T <=> tz.

Thanks. <tz> looks like a single grapheme because of the apparent
voicing difference, but <ts> looks as though it might be plain <t>
followed by plain <s>.

> > I am having a bit of trouble updating the rules for Romanian
> > to take account of it. (It was much easier to see it as a
> > reformation on the masculine.)
>
> You'll have to take into account also : post-tonic -(e)lla >
> -(e)a in Daco-Romanian, -(e)au& in Aromanian. The only thing
> to be noted is assimilation to /i/ from the first syllable by
> the "temporary" short /i/ issued from diphtongtion (see also
> message 18761). There is nothing else to be said.

What stopped stressed tautosyllabic /Tea/ simplifying to /Ta/ as in
terra 'ground' > tzarã? The /ea/ arises either from breaking of /ie/
(<E) or from the fall of /ll/.

Richard.