[tied] Re: PIE *kwokt

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

>> 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?

See the rules. /ea/ gots simplified in /a/ only if the next
syllable contains /a/ or /&/. Being final, there is no next
syllable, so it remains /ea/.

> The /ea/ arises either from breaking of /ie/ (<E) or from
> the fall of /ll/.

The first is valid. In fact -ll- > -u- [w]; the Common Romanian
form was something like /viTeaw&/. The (here final) group /w&/
may evolve in Daco-Romanian towards /o/ (through an intermediate
phase /wo/) and is eventually dropped if it follows stressed
final vowel (like in all other -ella words). The group -eaw& is
still alive in Aromanian and it's restored also in Daco-Romanian
when nouns are used with the definite article: "viTeaua".

Regards,
Marius Iacomi